Sometime in a non AD environment you need a user to run an App Pool so you can do cross server work (i.e. SQL). Before you can use the user in the App Pool identity you have to tell ASP.NET that they should be allow to run ASP.NET.

Simple command to run from the C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 directory

aspnet_regiis.exe –ga [UserName]

This will tell ASP.NET to allow this user to access temp directories and the assembly code.

 I wrote this when I needed to make all of my images folders purely anonymous reading. I dont want to ever run into an issue of an image that is not checked in. Create a console app and replace the main with the code below. It will crawl the whole site and make all images (publishing images) fully anonymous for reading.

 static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            bool requireApproval = false;

            // open the site
            SPSite site = new SPSite(http://YOUR_SITE);
            // open the web
            SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

            ProcessWeb(web, requireApproval);

            return;

            // open the web collection
            SPWebCollection webcoll = web.Webs;

            // parse through the webs
            foreach (SPWeb webx in webcoll)
            {
                ProcessWeb(webx, requireApproval);
            }

            Console.Read();
        }

        public static void ProcessWeb(SPWeb webx, bool requireApproval)
        {
            Console.Write("Processing " + webx.Url + "\n");

            // get the list
            SPListCollection lists = webx.Lists;

            // looks for our Pages list
            foreach (SPList siteList in lists)
            {
                if (siteList.Title == "Images")
                {

                    //PublishingWeb pweb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(webx);

                    //PublishingPageCollection ppages = pweb.GetPublishingPages();

                    bool fixSite = false;

                    siteList.EnableModeration = false;
                    siteList.ForceCheckout = false;
                    siteList.AllowEveryoneViewItems = false;
                    siteList.DraftVersionVisibility = DraftVisibilityType.Reader;
                    siteList.Update();

                    fixSite = true;

                    if (siteList.WorkflowAssociations.Count > 1)
                    {
                        SPWorkflowAssociationCollection wfCol = siteList.WorkflowAssociations;
                        SPWorkflowAssociation wf = wfCol.GetAssociationByName("Parallel Approval", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture);

                        wf.Enabled = false;

                        siteList.UpdateWorkflowAssociation(wf);
                    }
                }
            }

            if (webx.Webs.Count > 0)
            {
                foreach (SPWeb webNext in webx.Webs)
                {
                    ProcessWeb(webNext, requireApproval);

                }
            }
        }

Got it from here. 

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CD C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts\ [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/GZIP/HcFileExtensions “htm” “html” “txt” “ppt” “xls” “xml” “pdf” “xslt” “doc” “xsl” “htc” “js” “css” [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/DEFLATE/HcFileExtensions “htm” “html” “txt” “ppt” “xls” “xml” “pdf” “xslt” “doc” “xsl” “htc” “js” “css” [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/GZIP/HcScriptFileExtensions “asp” “dll” “exe” “aspx” “asmx” “ashx” [Enter]

cscript.exe adsutil.vbs set W3Svc/Filters/Compression/DEFLATE/HcScriptFileExtensions “asp” “dll” “exe” “aspx” “asmx” [Enter]

IISreset.exe /restart [Enter]

Then right click on WebSites > Properties > Enable compression on static files and applications.