Permission denied on .exe

I have a windows XP pro system with IIS 5.1 configured on it.
Everything works great and I just installed PHP and perl on it.
They are working great, and i figured out how to write to files too.

But now no one can download .exe files from me.
When i goto http://localhost/sound.exe (an example .exe) i get this:

You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied.
HTTP 401.3 - Access denied by ACL on resource
Internet Information Services

if i right click it and click save as when browsing directory /
then internet explorer returns: "was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later."
but the rest of the site works fine, just .exe files are being denied.

I checked security tab and IUSR has read rights to it.

401.3 means that the remote authenticated identity does not have access to
the resource by ACL.

So, you need to determine:
1. What is your remote authenticated identity
2. What are the ACLs on the resource

And make sure 1 is included in 2 for access.

You have only checked that the resource contains a read ACL for IUSR -- it
doesn't mean a thing if the remote authenticated identity is not IUSR. So,
please determine what the remote authenticated identity by giving what
authentication methods are enabled for that resource as well as what your
browser chose to authenticate as.

--
//David
IIS
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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I have a windows XP pro system with IIS 5.1 configured on it.
Everything works great and I just installed PHP and perl on it.
They are working great, and i figured out how to write to files too.

But now no one can download .exe files from me.
When i goto http://localhost/sound.exe (an example .exe) i get this:

You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the
credentials you supplied.
HTTP 401.3 - Access denied by ACL on resource
Internet Information Services

if i right click it and click save as when browsing directory /
then internet explorer returns: "was not able to open this Internet site.
The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try
again later."
but the rest of the site works fine, just .exe files are being denied.

I checked security tab and IUSR has read rights to it.