Application Pool shutting down

Question

Whenever I try to launch a site in the 4.0 App Pool shuts down immediately (if it ever started) an leaves an event in the event log:

Windows cannot find the local profile and is logging you on with a temporary profile. Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log off. The user specified is IIS APPPOOL\DefaultAppPool

followed by another event log entry Windows cannot log you on because your profile cannot be loaded. Check that you are connected to the network, and that your network is functioning correctly.

This machine is running Win 7 Ultimate

If the error is actually what is indicated in the event log, how can I reset the app pool users?

Answer 1

I just ran into this after upgrading my Win7 Ultimate x64 machine to SP1. The aforementioned message was found in the Application event log. It was accompanied by its good friend, "Application pool 'DefaultAppPool' is being automatically disabled due to a series of failures in the process(es) serving that application pool." in the System event log.

I changed the advanced setting of the app pool, "Load User Profile" from True to False and my app pool is running again using the configured identity (which, in my case is a domain account).