[RESOLVED] IIS crapped out again

All of a sudden my IIS crapped out on me. The only thing I have installed was norton AV 2005 (after uninstalling system works 2003) and also the recent windows XP updates that have become available via microsoft. (neither I would think should have caused a problem. I have tried disabling norton to see if that had any effect.

I also have tried uninstalling/reinstalling IIS, stoping/restarting IIS, deleting the entire inetpub directory and having it recreated on reinstall of IIS, deleting the ASPNET user account, etc...

NOTHING WORKS. I have had problems with IIS in the past and a complete uninstall/reinstall at least worked then. I found a bunch of articles suggesting various things (like the things I mentioned above) but nothing has worked for me. Now I can't get into any of my ASP.NET apps, and I can't even create a blank new one in VS.

In the event log there is some sort of com+ error but I don't know if it is related.

Quote:

A condition has occurred that indicates this COM+ application is in an unstable state or is not functioning correctly. Assertion Failure: SUCCEEDED(hr)

Server Application ID: {02D4B3F1-FD88-11D1-960D-00805FC79235}
Server Application Instance ID:
{D4CECFAB-8996-4E4B-B1CC-3306ED5B924E}
Server Application Name: System Application
The serious nature of this error has caused the process to terminate.
Error Code = 0x8000ffff : Catastrophic failure
COM+ Services Internals Information:
File: d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\comsvcs\tracker\trksvr\trksvrimpl.cpp, Line: 3000
Comsvcs.dll file version: ENU 2001.12.4414.258 shp

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