2 weeks of trials and errors

The same thing continued...and instead of getting any further, last weekend I went backwards. The IIS started acting up and the snap-in to the Management Console bombed.
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Microsoft Management Console
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Snap-in failed to initialize.
Name:
CLSID:{A841B6C2-7577-11D0-BB1F-00A0C922E79C}
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OK
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I went upto a point where I started madly deleting registry entries for IIS - ofcourse, after I backed it up. It gave something like this:
"Error writing encrypted data to web server's configuration database.."

I tried dumping IIS and installed Apache and ran a asp.net sample code as well.

But then, things came to a stand still - I started exploring options to install Windows Server 2003.

Today, I got IT folks to format my c drive and reinstall Windows XP Pro - it was getting too slow and too many things on it.

I dont know if I should be happy - now that IIS is up and more importantly - created and executed a sample asp.net web service project successfully!

Looks like finally some action begins tomorrow...like it never did before!!! I will sleep well today after 2 horrible weeks of madness and frustration...

:-)