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CJM
Asked: 2010-04-14 12:44:34 +0800 CST

Uninstall IIS on Windows 7

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I've just rebuilt my development machine and installed IIS. I then installed the Web Deployment tool and used this to restore my previously-backed-up websites to the clean machine. Unfortunately the restoration didn't work correctly/fully.

I couldn't easily correct the problem, so I decided to uninstall/reinstall IIS and recreate the sites manually.

I uninstalled IIS and rebooted, but there was still plenty of stuff left around such as various files in /windows/system32/inetsrv/ which I tried to delete manually (with limited success!).

I rebooted again and tried to reinstall IIS - it reported an error (no meaningful message) and requested another reboot. The event log includes the following errors:

The World Wide Web Publishing Service (WWW Service) did not register the URL prefix http://*:80/gallery for site 1. The site has been disabled.

and

Unable to bind to the underlying transport for [::]:80. The IP Listen-Only list may contain a reference to an interface which may not exist on this machine.

I'd like to avoid another rebuild. Can I completely remove IIS, such that I can reinstall it from scratch? Or can I 'fix' the current setup so that IIS will reinstall over what is already there?

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2 Answers

  1. This is not IIS Installation issue. Check this article KB 890015. Check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HTTP\Parameters by default there is no ListenOnlyList

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  2. Best Answer

    I finally managed to delete the conetents INETSRV folder, thanks to this page:

    http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-delete-a-system-file-in-windows-vista/

    I actually had to modify the cacls command slightly to handle folders rather than files (/T switch, if I recall correctly).

    Once the folder was cleared, IIS could be reinstalled successfully.

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