port 80 in use?

[RandyRiegel]

I just installed a fresh copy of windows xp on my development machine. I can't get IIS to work, I get "Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occured." which according to Microsoft is because port 80 is in use. Port 80 should no way be in use with anything else. I did a netstat and according to it nothing is using local port 80. Is there anything else that could be going on?

 

[Serbtastic]

Exactly what netstat command did you use to check that? Try this one:

netstat -ano | find "80"

 

[ITPangaeaArchitect]

have you altered the default port on the default web site to something other than 80? if so, try it and see if IIS starts...if it does, then we can dig in deeper as to why port 80 is tied up...

-Brandon Wilson
MCSE00/03, MCSA:Messaging00, MCSA03, A+

 

[ChrisHirst]

set Skype to use a different port.

Chris.

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