How to delete IIS metabase?

[Rbrt]

I am having bizarre problems with IIS 6.0 an ASP.NET 2.0 on the Win 2003
Server in our (closed internal) development network. Following some of the
suggestions I have seen here, I have removed IIS 6.0 from the server as well
as all versions of ASP.NET. I would also like to remove the IIS metabase
(Metabase.xml & MBSchema.xml) before I re-install IIS & ASP.NET, but when I
try to do that I get a message saying that the files are in use by a
currently running program and to shut down the program first.

Can anybody provide any clues as to what the program(s) might be?

Thanks.

 

[Rbrt]

OK. I've figured out that it is inetinfo.exe. Why is this process running on
a machine that has IIS uninstalled? Anybody?

 

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

Tha'ts a good question. Try rebooting the machine, or kill the Inetinfo.exe
process from Task Manager.

--Peter
"Inside every large program, there is a small program trying to get out."
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
http://www.blogmetafinder.com