How to Manually Stop or Start the Inetinfo Process

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To unload the Inetinfo.exe process completely, and to make sure that all of the extensions are unloaded properly, stop the IISAdmin service and the World Wide Web Publishing Service.

When you start the Internet services on your computer, starting the IISAdmin service only starts the IISAdmin service; however, starting the World Wide Web Publishing service starts both the World Wide Web Publishing Service and the IISAdmin service.

From the command line, do the following:

   net start or stop

      w3svc      World Wide Web Publishing Service
      iisadmin   IIS Admin Service
      msftpsvc   FTP Publishing Service
      cisvc      Content Index
      smtpsvc    Microsoft SMTP Service
				

In previous versions of IIS, you can stop the entire Web service by typing "net stop w3svc" (without the quotation marks) at the command line. This terminates all of the Web services on the computer, and shuts down the Inetinfo.exe process. As a result of the new multiple Web site architecture, there is another service, Iisadmin, that keeps running even when W3SVC is shut down. The same is true for starting and stopping services from Control Panel. If you truly want to unload the Inetinfo.exe process, and make sure that all of the extensions are unloaded properly, you should now type "net stop Iisadmin" rather than "net stop w3svc" (both without the quotation marks). Typing "net start w3svc" or "net start Msftpsvc" (without the quotation marks) automatically starts Iisadmin.