IIS Express will not start

Question

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Cannot start IIS Express 7.5 after reinstall from one account, but I

Answer 1

Only Deleting config folder did not work for me. Also i did this

"Delete the following file <>.vs\config\applicationhost.config, the .vs folder may be hidden"

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1a25b14d-02e5-4adc-bd79-4d215893fed2/vs-2013-unable-to-start-program-cprogram-files-x86iis-expressiisexpressexe?forum=visualstudiogeneral

Answer 2

Also, you might need to change the line

applicationDefaults applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool"

to

applicationDefaults applicationPool="Clr2IntegratedAppPool"

in the file...

C:\users\jmitchell\My Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config

if you continue to get the same error (as I did) after following the instructions on the post above. The issue being solved here is that you don't have .NET4 installed, and so are reverting to using .NET2

Thanks