IIS Installation on Windows 7

A lot of time people come across a situation where they don't have IIS installed on their machines.
Assuming you have admin access to Control Panel and sufficient Installation rights the process becomes fairly easy.

1. Open Control Panel

2. Click on Programs

3. Select “Turn Windows features on or off”

wait for it to load…

Notice that “Internet Information Services” is highlighted, locate it and click on the “+” sign.

4. Once “IIS” node expands, select the options “Web Management Tools” and “World Wide Web Services” And press “OK”.
5. That’s all and IIS will be installed on your system.
6. Incase you want to use the FTP Sever features as well check on the FTP Server option as well. (It’s mainly for file transfer")

Removing Excessive Files from Application Pool

We keep on debugging our Web Applications with IIS, however over a period of time we have multiple web applications under the Default Application Pool. As a result we end with far too many applications pointing to an Application Pool than actually intended.

To resolve this, go to Sites, expand it and go to Default Web Site, and on the extreme right end you’ll see an option on View Applications, select it.

This wil give you complete list of Websites under Default Web Site, which are associated to various Application Pools.
Select them individually and delete it.