How to close IIS Worker Process

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I was trying to install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 on my machine and I encountered this issue. Problem screenshot

I looked it up, it looks like IIS Worker Process is some kind of w3wp.exe, so I looked into my Windows Task Manager and found out w3wp.exe is not running. I also took a look at my Worker Processes in IIS Manager and it wasn't started either. So, how do I close this application so I can continue my install or is there something else I can do?

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited May 31 '14 at 13:24

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In IIS Manager -> Application pool, stop all applications
Run CMD as administrator, and type iisreset -noforce

edited May 31 '14 at 13:24

Emanuel Vintilă

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answered Jul 10 '13 at 20:53

HoKy22

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I didn't see an option for "stop all applications" but this worked by going through one by one and stopping them. – Stack Underflow Apr 02 '20 at 20:17

How to close IIS Worker Process

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