IIS - Cannot browse localhost

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Hi,

I am having trouble getting IIS to respond on a new laptop, running XP Pro,
SP2. I am trying to get IIS to run on this machine for the first time.

When I type http://localhost in Internet Explorer's address field, IE's
status bar says "Opening page hppt://localhost/." but the page is blank
(white) and never shows anything. It just seems to hang. Eventually I get
"The Page cannot be Displayed" - "Cannot find server or DNS Error" error.

I believe I have IIS installed properly: When I go to Control Panel | Add or
Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components, select IIS and click
Details, the following items are checked: Common Files, Documentation,
FrontPage 2000 Server Extensions, Internet Information Services Snap-In,
SMTP Service, and www Service (grey checkbox).

When I go to My Computer and right click on Manage, then expand Services and
Applications and double click on IIS, I get nothing in the right-hand pane
of the Computer Management screen. It just seems to hang.

I cannot tell any difference when I enable or disable Norton Internet
Security, nor can I tell a difference when I enable or disable Windows
Firewall.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Try the "microsoft.public.inetserver.iis...." newsgroups.

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