From: "David Blair" 

There are no open backups. But that was an idea I wouldn't have thought of!




"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:41446ffa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Do you have backup software running on that system? If so, check the
> logs - if a backup set isn't finished properly, maybe there is a file lock
> that isn't released.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "David Blair"  wrote in message
> news:414456d2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>I ad a number of websites on my IIS server, and they suddenly quit
>>working. I do not know or recall any changes which should have caused this
>>(notice this is NOT saying I made none- simply I have been fighting this
>>problem for a while and don't recall what changes I may have made.)
>>
>> I've removed via uninstall (they were installed packages) all the sites
>> there, and still received this error"
>>
>> "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another
>> process."
>>
>> And the default website is stopped. I cannot start it.
>>
>> There is no indication what file it complains about, there is nothing in
>> the even viewer logs, and no error number that I can use as a reference.
>> I've tried things I found in Googling the error message but to no avail.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>> I am NOT much more than of cursory acquaintance with IIS.
>>
>>
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