How To Disable Windows IIS at Startup

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the purpose of this tutorial is to show you how you can disable IIS (Internet Information Services) on your Microsoft Windows Server.

sometimes its helpful because you want to disable it by default because you may have another web server running on your server like apache for example. and you may want to stop IIS from running when you first start your server. With these steps, you can still start your server, because you are not going to be uninstalling it rather, you are just going to stop it from starting at startup of your server.

I will show you how its done by using a windows 7 Computer i have.

first go to the control panel and select Administrative tools


in the administrative tools panel, double click on Services


now scroll down to the World Wide Web Publishing Service and right click on World Wide Web Publishing Service and select properties:


under the General tab, in Startup Type - select Manual


click OK, now when you restart your computer, IIS will not start by default. if you want to start it, you can start it manually.