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IIS Services Have Been Disabled

Find out if the Internet Information Services have been disabled.

Start a Command Prompt as an Administrator

To start a command prompt as an administrator:

  1. Click the Start/Windows button.
  2. Type cmd, and then right-click to Run as administrator.
  3. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and click Yes to continue.

After starting the elevated command prompt, type the following command:

iisreset /status

and press ENTER.

Check IIS Missing Services

After running iisreset /status, only two services are shown. The IIS Admin Service (IISADMIN) is Stopped and the World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) seems to be missing.

It's possible that the services have been disabled. To verify this, you have to start the Services Management Console.

Start the Services Management Console

To start the Services Management Console:

  1. Click the Start/Windows button.
  2. Type local services, and then left-click View local services.
  3. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and click Yes to continue.

Start Services

After starting the Services Management Console, scroll down in the services list to find the IIS Admin Service. The Startup Type has been set to Disabled.

Find IIS Admin Service

To enable the IIS Admin Service, right-click on the service and select Properties.

IIS Admin Service Properties

After opening the IIS Admin Service Properties window, find Startup type and set it to Automatic, then click OK.

Set IIS Admin Service to Automatic

After setting the IIS Admin Service Startup type to Automatic, click Start to start the service.

Start IIS Admin Service

Next, find the World Wide Web Publishing Service, right-click on the service, and select Properties.

W3SVC Properties

After opening the World Wide Web Publishing Service Properties window, find Startup type and set it to Automatic, then click OK.

Set W3SVC to Automatic

After setting the World Wide Web Publishing Service Startup type to Automatic, click Start to start the service.

Start W3SVC

Verify IIS Services

To verify if the IIS services are working, open a browser and enter http://localhost/ in the address bar. If the IIS services are functioning properly, you should see the IIS welcome page.

If all Internet Information Services are running and there is still a problem opening the Default Website, continue to Troubleshooting.

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