Showing posts with label uninstall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uninstall. Show all posts

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Can not Start Windows Process Activation Service

Got an error message after uninstall IIS7 on windows 2008 R2, and deleted the C:\inetpub folder.

"The Windows Process Activation Service service terminated with the following error:
The system cannot find the file specified."


 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc734935.aspx, which has, as the first option for solving this problem:

To resolve this issue, make sure that the appPools directory meets the following requirements:
- The directory must exist.
- The directory cannot be on a UNC path.
- The directory must be available to WAS and should have the following permissions:
* SYSTEM: Full Access
* Administrators: Full Access
* IIS_IUSRS: Read

Friday, October 8, 2010

Uninstall MySQL on windows

If you run into trouble and want to start over. Follows these steps ot uninstall MySQL:
1. Open the Control Panel and Choose Add or Remove Programs. Find the MySQL 5.0 OR MySQL 5.1 entry and choose the UNINSTALL/REMOVE button.
2. After it uninstalls, click on Start-->Run . Type "regedit". Open
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> SOFTWARE-->MySQL AB
Delete MySQL AB if it exists
3. Go to C:\Program Files . Look for "MySQL" Folder and delete it
Restart your system. Now you should be able to re-install MySQL .