can't open IIS 5.0

External Since: Oct 30, 2003 Posts: 2

when I try to open IIS 5.0 a message appears that "says
it can't find path" on local machine
IIS won't open even if you reinstall it

External Since: Aug 26, 2003 Posts: 392

It sounds like the metabase is corrupted. Restore from a backup if you
have one, if not, uninstall IIS, make sure that the metabase.bin is deleted
from windows\system32\inetsrv folder. Also, delete the following folder:
%<Windir>%\Profiles\All Users\Application
Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys, and then reinstall IIS.

Hope this helps!

Thank you,

Jackie Jaynes [MSFT]
Microsoft IIS
JackieJa DeleteThis @online.microsoft.com

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