IIS: default web is stopped and won't start: HELP!!

[wengang]

I have set up a website on IIS in a Japanese Windows 2000 Pro.

Everything looks right, but the Default Web and Default FTP both say (stopped). When I right click and try to start the web, it waits about 10 seconds and then gives an error:

(roughly translated from Japanese)
The Web start request could not succeed within the specified time.

Anybody else seen this kind of error? I've restarted IIS, the same. Uninstalled/reinstalled IIS, the same.

any thoughts? (by the way, this is sorta urgent if you have a minute)

Thanks.
Wengang

[Ideas Man]

You are trying to do this under an administrator account aren't you? Do you have permission to start web sites/services?

[wengang]

Hey.
Thanks for replying.

This was a laptop we were setting up to demo the website. Since it didn't have anything else on it, I reformatted it, installed windows XP and IIS and it worked fine.

The main problem was that the messages were in Japanese and I couldn't figure out exactly what the problem was.

Thanks anyway.

Best regards.
Wengang