Kill IIS Process without Rebooting

Permission Denied Error

So you've written some ASP code and you go to test it for the first time and you're in an endless loop situation. You try to stop the IIS Service, and it fails with Permission Denied. Only way out is to reboot?

Not neccessarily. There is a tool from Microsoft, that is installed when installing IIS, called IISReset which is located in the %windir%\system32\ folder. It can be run from the command line, and takes parameters.

Usage: iisreset [computername] /switches

/RESTART	Stop and then restart all Internet services.
/START	Start all Internet services.
/STOP	Stop all Internet services.
/REBOOT	Reboot the computer.
/REBOOTONERROR	Reboot the computer if an error occurs when starting,stopping, or restarting Internet services.
/NOFORCE	Do not forcefully terminate Internet services if attempting to stop them gracefully fails.
/TIMEOUT:val	Specify the timeout value ( in seconds ) to wait for a successful stop of Internet services. On expiration of this timeout the computer can be rebooted if the /REBOOTONERROR parameter is specified. The default value is 20s for restart, 60s for stop, and 0s for reboot.
/STATUS	Display the status of all Internet services.
/ENABLE	Enable restarting of Internet Services on the local system.
/DISABLE	Disable restarting of Internet Services on the local system.

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