Johann Montfort

After about 4 hours battling with this error, and wondering why my website could not load, I managed to figure out what the problem was!  Since I have installed a trial version of Windows 7, IIS 7.5 works differently from Vista’s IIS 7.

So I did the following procedure to get rid of the error and now my website is up and running again on my localhost

• go into Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager
• expand node with your computer name on left side and select “Application Pools”
• now in the window on the right side, right click “Classic .NET AppPool” and select “Advanced Settings…”
• find “Identity” property and change its value to “LocalSystem”

That solved the problem!

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