IIS 6 services won't start

[genzbenz]

Hello,

While trying to fix something in my IIS, I made it worse. I ran the following command:

cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/disablesocketpooling true

and now I can't restart IIS. The IIS Admin service fails with an "invalid handle" error. I'm using IIS6. Is there any way to reverse this command?

 

[Xemus]

What were you trying to fix that made you want to run that command?
If you rerun the command, but chance the "true" argument to "false", it should re-enable socket pooling, thus bringing your sites back.

http://www.closedsocket.com

 

[genzbenz]

I was trying to get my SMTP service to start. I tried running the command that you suggested, but it only works when IIS is running. Come to find out, I had a corrupt file in the C:\documents and settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys folder. I had to delete the folder, recreate the folder, encrypt it, and reinstall IIS. I think it was just a coincidence that I couln't start IIS after running that command.