Can't start site in IIS (use by another process)

Question

When I try to start a site in IIS it says:

the process can\'t access the file because it used by another process

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Answer 1

I think this link gives a pretty good explanation and fix of this problem http://support.microsoft.com/KB/890015

Most of the time; it's caused by one of the two reasons: 1) port 80 is being used by something else and as suggested by others you can use netstat -o -n -a |findstr 0.0:80 to see whether this is the case. If yes then kill the process from task manager (tick show processes from all users)

2) if port 80 is not used, the second cause is potentially an invalid ip address in the ListenOnlyList filed in the registry key of HTTP->Parameters. If you follow the link to set the key manually or in fact you can use (xp and server 2003) httpcfg delete iplisten -i ipaddress to delete the invalid ip address. You must restart the http once you edit the ipaddress!