Microsoft Web Platform Installer 4.0 fail

Question

Because my hard drive is nearly full, I find I don't use the (full)IIS7 and uninstall it to release hard drive space in my vista computer.

However, after that, I can't do many download installations through 'Microsoft Web Platform Installer 4.0", for example, download and install webMatrix 2.

I install the IIS8 express, I still can't do many download installation through MWPI 4.0, even I can't uninstall the MWPI from my computer. thanks advanced

Answer 1

I talked to the guys on the WebPI team, and they confirmed there is a bug. WebPI installs a plugin into inetmgr that occasionally doesn't get cleaned up after uninstalling IIS. THis causes WebPI a lot of trouble. Give this a try:

• Install Full IIS
• Uninstall existing WebPI
• Uninstall Full IIS
• Re-install WebPI

After doing these steps, everything should work. Sorry for the confusion.