Using Gmail for SMTP access

Introduction When you search for this on google you will find one hundred million results that all pretty much say exactly the same thing. The problem is none of them are from a developer’s pers...

IIS application pool exploit

What? That’s what I said too when I first discovered the exploit. I didn’t think it was so easily possible to extract usernames and passwords from IIS, but it is. I contacted Microsoft abo...

Windows 10 won’t display password box after restart

The stupid problem This was an especially stupid problem. My computer lost power while I was trying to shut it down on UPS power during Hurricane Irma – I didn’t catch my PC in time and th...

Windows Services and Creating a Setup Project

I want to create a constructive post on this with a full explanation on how to create a setup project for anything, my main example will use a windows service since I think there is a lot more configu...