Re: IIS 5.1 On Windows XP Will Not Start

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From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 19:23:39 +0000

On 4 Mar 2004 08:11:08 -0800, auctionexplorer@netzero.net (Jason
Stone) wrote:

>I think I found an error, but I still do not know what the problem is. It says
>"The World Wide Web Publishing service hung on starting."

Are you using any anti-virus software with script-blocking enabled ?
Or a software firewall such as Zone Alarm perhaps ? Both of these can
cause problems for IIS.

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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