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Figure 5.2 Viewing the Default Web Page with IIS

2. Another way to find out if IIS is installed and running is to go to
the Task Manager utility (found in the Taskbar properties) as seen
in Figure 5.3, and look for the Inetinfo.exe process running. This
is an indicator that IIS is running on your system. One way to dis-
able the Web server is to open the Internet Information Services
MMC found in the Administrative tools folder in the Control
Panel and find the running Web site. You can then right-click on
it and choose to stop the service from the context menu.

3. In Windows, go to the Services MMC within the Administrative
tools folder in your Control Panel. As seen in Figure 5.4, if you
find the World Wide Web (WWW) Publishing service running and
it is either set to Automatic or Manual, then it is installed and
able to run. If the Status is set to “Started” then you are cur-
rently running a Web server. By viewing the properties of this ser-
vice, you’ll find that the path to the executable points to the

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