Monday, April 13, 2009

Installing IIS on WinXP SP3

I run into a problem today: for some reason could not install IIS on my machine with Windows XP Pro SP3. I was pointing installer to the correct i386 files location and was getting error saying that the files where not Windows XP Pro SP3 files and they sure were.

I searched online for the solution and one of the suggestions was to rebuild one of the system databases with the following command:

esentutl /p c:\windows\security\database\secedit.sdb

The IIS installed just fine after this.

Good Luck!

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