No sir, away! A papaya war is on!

I spent a good 24 hours trying to figure this out. Here is what happened:

1. I wanted to install the IIS Rewrite Module on my server which needed Vista SP1
2. After installing SP1, the W3SVC service refused to start
3. I went online and tried to find solutions and couldn’t find anything.
4. I tried going to Add/Remove windows components to uninstall Windows Activation Service (WAS) and IIS and reinstall them
5. After reinstalling WAS, I could not reinstall IIS7 and kept getting errors like “Not all components installed successfully” (paraphrased)
6. Essentially nothing worked. I even called Microsoft but the friendly Indian guy could not help me.

Then I said, “whatever, let’s try again” and I:

1. Restored my computer to pre-SP1 (using windows restore)
2. resintalled SP1
3. got same errors
4. tried to find a solution again and…

BAM! The wonderful Taylor Mitchell had the only solution I found that worked. Apparently, after installing SP1, my applicationHost.config file lost a setting. Read all about the solution here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistasp/thread/456da543-2301-4ba4-86d2-c3e016554255/