IIS 5 Problem

I installed IIS 5 on my xp pro machine. Everything worked great for a while. Then couple of months later something went wrong. The server is not working. I tried restarting it nothing. I look in the services part. It's there and running on automatic. But when I type http://localhost , nothing error page. I went to the IIS setting (manager) and under the Internet Information Services i do see my Desktop (local machine) listed. But before there was a tree structure that broke down into ,"web: and SMTP. But right now there is nothing under there. Weird! I ried reinstalling it but nothing. Only thing I did before it started acting crazy was get a cable modem installed and did the windows updates. Can someone please help!

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That is a common problem and very easy to fix try www.apache.org

try checking out this article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328512

p.s. next time post in the windows forum not the unix forum

You may try the control panel add/remove programs to remove the IIs componeent and then reinstall it. Note that IIS has a number of subcomponents. Reboots between steps probably wouldn't hurt. There's an old joke about how to reset Win Blows.

I tried doing that. I uninstalled it. Then restarted. And then reinstalled it. Still same problem. I even unistalled all the updates, Norton firewall and antivirus.