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IIS Manager Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process...

Mar 13, 2007 07:16 PM|LINK

This is IIS 7 in Windows Vista Ultimate. The web site is stopped and when I try to start it the error message (in subject) appears.

In EventLog(System) I get the following following errors:

Source: HttpEvent

Msg: Unable to bind to the underlying transport for [::]:80. The IP Listen-Only list may contain a reference to an interface which may not exist on this machine. The data field contains the error number.

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Re: IIS Manager Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another pro...

Mar 13, 2007 07:47 PM|LINK

This is an issue with binding conflict. There is another application that is using port 80. If you change the bindings for the default website to 8080 [for test purpose] it will work.

You can run NETSTAT -ano and find out the PID for the process that is using port 80, then you can compare that PID with the process name in task manager [may be skype.exe?]

HTH,

AJ