Remove IIS from XP home

[Guest]

Somehow IIS was installed on my XP Home SP2 machine. I have no recollection
of doing it but suspect it happened when I installed VS2005 Express which
installed Net2. I have uninstalled VS2005 Express and I think part of IIS
disappeared at the same time.

I'd like to finish the uninstall of IIS but can't find reference in
add/remove -windows components or in services.

I get this message which is why I want to finish the uninstall: A security
check failed bacause the IIS Admin Service did not respond. To fix this,
repair or remove IIS, and restart computer

How do I proceed? Registry changes??

Thanks,
RON C

 

[Steven L Umbach]

In services.msc do you see the www service listed??

Steve

 

[Guest]

Only w that does not have windows a start is WebClient. I see nothing in
add/remove win comp. either. There are about 50 files with iis in their name
and about 20 entries in the registry with it.

Thanks for responding.
RON C

 

[Tom Willett]

How did IIS get installed in the first place, since it can only be installed
on Pro?

| In services.msc do you see the www service listed??
|
| Steve
|
|
| | > Somehow IIS was installed on my XP Home SP2 machine. I have no
| > recollection
| > of doing it but suspect it happened when I installed VS2005 Express
which
| > installed Net2. I have uninstalled VS2005 Express and I think part of
IIS
| > disappeared at the same time.
| >
| > I'd like to finish the uninstall of IIS but can't find reference in
| > add/remove -windows components or in services.
| >
| > I get this message which is why I want to finish the uninstall: A
| > security
| > check failed bacause the IIS Admin Service did not respond. To fix this,
| > repair or remove IIS, and restart computer
| >
| > How do I proceed? Registry changes??
| >
| > Thanks,
| > RON C
|
|

 

[Guest]

I gather it can but takes some work. It was installed along with VS Express
and Net2 by a young guys who USED to borrow my PC. He wasn't happy using
VC++2003. I uninstalled VS Express and gather that IIS was partially removed
by that.

RON C

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Good question Tom. I have seen hacks on the internet that clain it can be
done as in the link below for example. I have never tried it myself and as a
rule do not use XP Home though it is on my daughter's computer.

Steve

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020118.htm

 

[Steven L Umbach]

My guess is he did some unsupported changes to the operating system in an
attempt to get PWS work on XP Home. Since it is not shown in Add and Remove
Programs/Windows components then you will need to manually remove associated
files and registry entries to see if that fixes your problem. You can search
the registry for program related entries or live with it as if it is not
causing any problems. You can use msconfig or Autoruns from
SysInternals/Microsoft to view and disable non essential startup processes
and services. If it was my computer I would probably reinstall the operating
system because who knows what they all did when they borrowed it.

Steve


http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html --- Autoruns

 

[Guest]

Steven,

I've thought of reinstalling but don't have all of the files for some
programs to do it. As my friend has some of my CDs. This is not a good
situation let me tell you.

Can I delete any registry item with IIS in it? All IIS named files are in
one directory.

Thanks for the help.
RON C

 

[Steven L Umbach]

That should not cause a problem with your operating system. Best practice is
to backup any registry keys before you delete them "just in case". If after
a period of time you see no problems you can delete them.

Steve

 

[Guest]

I downloaded Autoruns from sysinternals. Much better than MSconfig.

Is there a replacement for regedit to make things easier?

Thanks again.
RON C

 

[Steven L Umbach]

There may be but I don't know of one. I find regedit pretty straight forward
as it is. Regseeker is something you may want to check out.

Steve

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html -- Regseeker

 

[Guest]

I removed all reference to IIS in the registry except for a codec with iis in
it's name. Problem is no change.

I did find this in a file iis6.log:
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] LogFile Open. [***** Search on FAIL/MessageBox keywords
for failures *****].
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] Initial thread locale=409
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] returned from France fix with locale 409
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_PREINITIALIZE:[iis] End. Return=1 (OCFLAG_UNICODE)
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:[iis,(null)] Start.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:8/4/2004 10:56:44 _____N__
6.0.2600.2180: 6.0.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158):
x86: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Setup\iis.dll
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Set UnAttendFlag:OFF (File='')
[9/13/2006 15:58:53]
OC_INIT_COMPONENT:CmdLine="C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysocmgr.exe" /y
/i:C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysoc.inf
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:OldWWWRoot='\inetpub\wwwRoot'. Does
not exist. we'll use the
default. WARNING.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Old InetPub='C:\Inetpub'. Does not
exist. we'll use the default.
WARNING.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:CRegKey::QueryValue(): UninstallInfo
Not found. WARNING. code=0x2
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Old InetPub='C:\Inetpub'. Does not
exist. we'll use the default.
WARNING.
[9/13/2006 16:0:9] OC_CLEANUP:Final Check:LogFile Close.

Any recommendations where to look? Are there ini or config files related to
it?

Thanks,
RON C

 

[Guest]

Is ASP supposed to exist without IIS? If not, I need to remove it also.

RON C

I removed all reference to IIS in the registry except for a codec with iis in
it's name. Problem is no change.

I did find this in a file iis6.log:
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] LogFile Open. [***** Search on FAIL/MessageBox keywords
for failures *****].
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] Initial thread locale=409
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] returned from France fix with locale 409
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_PREINITIALIZE:[iis] End. Return=1 (OCFLAG_UNICODE)
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:[iis,(null)] Start.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:8/4/2004 10:56:44 _____N__
6.0.2600.2180: 6.0.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158):
x86: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Setup\iis.dll
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Set UnAttendFlag:OFF (File='')
[9/13/2006 15:58:53]
OC_INIT_COMPONENT:CmdLine="C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysocmgr.exe" /y
/i:C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysoc.inf
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:OldWWWRoot='\inetpub\wwwRoot'. Does
not exist. we'll use the
default. WARNING.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Old InetPub='C:\Inetpub'. Does not
exist. we'll use the default.
WARNING.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:CRegKey::QueryValue(): UninstallInfo
Not found. WARNING. code=0x2
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Old InetPub='C:\Inetpub'. Does not
exist. we'll use the default.
WARNING.
[9/13/2006 16:0:9] OC_CLEANUP:Final Check:LogFile Close.

Any recommendations where to look? Are there ini or config files related to
it?

Thanks,
RON C

There may be but I don't know of one. I find regedit pretty straight forward
as it is. Regseeker is something you may want to check out.

Steve

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html -- Regseeker

 

[Steven L Umbach]

No it requires IIS. What proplems are you still having??

Steve

Is ASP supposed to exist without IIS? If not, I need to remove it also.

RON C

I removed all reference to IIS in the registry except for a codec with
iis in
it's name. Problem is no change.

I did find this in a file iis6.log:
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] LogFile Open. [***** Search on FAIL/MessageBox
keywords
for failures *****].
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] Initial thread locale=409
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] returned from France fix with locale 409
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_PREINITIALIZE:[iis] End. Return=1
(OCFLAG_UNICODE)
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:[iis,(null)] Start.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:8/4/2004 10:56:44 _____N__
6.0.2600.2180: 6.0.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158):
x86: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Setup\iis.dll
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Set UnAttendFlag:OFF (File='')
[9/13/2006 15:58:53]
OC_INIT_COMPONENT:CmdLine="C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysocmgr.exe" /y
/i:C:\WINDOWS\system32\sysoc.inf
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:OldWWWRoot='\inetpub\wwwRoot'.
Does
not exist. we'll use the
default. WARNING.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Old InetPub='C:\Inetpub'. Does
not
exist. we'll use the default.
WARNING.
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:CRegKey::QueryValue():
UninstallInfo
Not found. WARNING. code=0x2
[9/13/2006 15:58:53] OC_INIT_COMPONENT:Old InetPub='C:\Inetpub'. Does
not
exist. we'll use the default.
WARNING.
[9/13/2006 16:0:9] OC_CLEANUP:Final Check:LogFile Close.

Any recommendations where to look? Are there ini or config files related
to
it?

Thanks,
RON C

There may be but I don't know of one. I find regedit pretty straight
forward
as it is. Regseeker is something you may want to check out.

Steve

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/regseeker.html -- Regseeker

I downloaded Autoruns from sysinternals. Much better than MSconfig.

Is there a replacement for regedit to make things easier?

Thanks again.
RON C

:

That should not cause a problem with your operating system. Best
practice
is
to backup any registry keys before you delete them "just in case".
If
after
a period of time you see no problems you can delete them.

Steve


Steven,

I've thought of reinstalling but don't have all of the files for
some
programs to do it. As my friend has some of my CDs. This is not
a
good
situation let me tell you.

Can I delete any registry item with IIS in it? All IIS named
files are
in
one directory.

Thanks for the help.
RON C

:

My guess is he did some unsupported changes to the operating
system in
an
attempt to get PWS work on XP Home. Since it is not shown in Add
and
Remove
Programs/Windows components then you will need to manually remove
associated
files and registry entries to see if that fixes your problem. You
can
search
the registry for program related entries or live with it as if
it is
not
causing any problems. You can use msconfig or Autoruns from
SysInternals/Microsoft to view and disable non essential startup
processes
and services. If it was my computer I would probably reinstall
the
operating
system because who knows what they all did when they borrowed it.

Steve


http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html ---
Autoruns

I gather it can but takes some work. It was installed along
with VS
Express
and Net2 by a young guys who USED to borrow my PC. He wasn't
happy
using
VC++2003. I uninstalled VS Express and gather that IIS was
partially
removed
by that.

RON C

:

How did IIS get installed in the first place, since it can
only be
installed
on Pro?

message
| In services.msc do you see the www service listed??
|
| Steve
|
|
| | > Somehow IIS was installed on my XP Home SP2 machine. I
have no
| > recollection
| > of doing it but suspect it happened when I installed
VS2005
Express
which
| > installed Net2. I have uninstalled VS2005 Express and I
think
part
of
IIS
| > disappeared at the same time.
| >
| > I'd like to finish the uninstall of IIS but can't find
reference
in
| > add/remove -windows components or in services.
| >
| > I get this message which is why I want to finish the
uninstall:
A
| > security
| > check failed bacause the IIS Admin Service did not
respond. To
fix
this,
| > repair or remove IIS, and restart computer
| >
| > How do I proceed? Registry changes??
| >
| > Thanks,
| > RON C
|
|