iis 5.1 will not work

my iis 5.1 was working fine for couple months and then it
just stopped functioning. I am behind a router and I have
norton internet security installed as well.

I have configured my router to allow access to the web
sever as well as norton (server was working fine with
norton and router before).

I decided to uninstall and re-install iis but that did
not seem to work. Every time I try to access the iis snap-
in, it does not start, until I end the inetinfo.exe
process. The snap-in will then only function for a short
time.

I have also ran the sfc /scannow and that did not seem
to have any effect.

iisreset will stop the service but when it trys to
restart it the following error message comes up:
The service did not respond to the start or control
request in a timely fashion, <2147942452, 8007041d>

Anyone have any ideas?

This sounds like the metabase may be corrupted, do you have a backup?
When you say you tried to uninstall and reinstall and it didn't work, what
didn't work? The uninstall or you still had the same problem after you
uninstalled and reinstalled IIS?

Thank you,

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

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