Are you sure that you do not have Nimda Worm? Sounds an awful lot like it. JK -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Carl Arnoult Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:54 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] IIS fails to start I have a W2K SP2 box supporting Terminal Server with Citrix MF XP. The = server is scheduled to reboot nightly. Recently the WWW Publishing = Service has "hung on starting" with the following error msgs in the = Application Events log: Unable to query the IIS Info service performance data. The error code = returned by the service is data DWORD 0.=20 Unable to query the W3SVC (HTTP) service performance data. The error = code returned by the service is data DWORD 0. together with the following error msgs in the Application Events log: ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm