Hi
 
MY IIS 5.1 (on XP) has been working fine for ages. However, a few months ago, it stopped starting automatically and each time I rebooted, I had to start it manually. Anyway, it still worked fine.
 
Today, I tried starting it and I got the following error message:
 
"Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred."
 
What exactly does that mean?!
 
I have tried restarting the system and it still says the same thing. Now, however, it has a red 'error' icon next to the 'Local Host (Stopped)' part.
 
(I only use it on the localhost for some basic PHP development).
 
Since, I have had a look in the Event Viewer under System messages and I can see the following error under the source of 'W3SVC':
 
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The service could not bind instance 1. The data is the error code.
For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.
 
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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Any ideas?
 
Thanks.
 
Mak.