Before everyone reads this, I just want to say that i know that there are related threads out there, but I have either tried them or do not understand. With that being said here
My issue is that I accidentally installed another site as the default site instead of the IIS default (by opening another project.) I had to remove the default site and repoint it to the default location C:\inetpub\wwwroot
using my domain login as the user to bypass with then just reopened my project that I was trying to run (the one showing this error) and it was all honky dorry