How to disable IIS8 on windows 8?

Sohail Ali

I disable IIS8 from control panel, and rebooted the machine. ?? But still when i enter http://localhost it is showing IIS8

How to solve?

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Ben Martin5y ago
To stop IIS using the IISReset command-line utility
From the Start menu, click Run.
In the Open box, type cmd, and click OK.
At the command prompt, type
iisreset /stop
IIS attempts to stop all services.

I hope this helps!
Ben Martin
Jerry Maguire5y ago
Using the UI
Open IIS Manager and navigate to the web server node in the tree.
In the Actions pane, click Start if you want to start the web server, Stop if you want to stop the web server, or Restart if you want to first stop IIS, and then start it again.
Using a command line
Open an elevated command-line window.
At the command prompt, type net stop WAS and press ENTER; type Y and then press ENTER to stop W3SVC as well.
To start the web server, type net start W3SVC and press ENTER to start both WAS and W3SVC.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Jerry.
Raja T10y ago
Hello Ali, Try like

Goto --Start-> Control Panel-->Programs-->Turn Window features on or off-->Unchecked IIS(Internet Information Services).
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Javeed M Shaikh13y ago
that means the W3SVC service already stopped,not sure how you can still access localhost, try clearing the cache, temp files, try this:

not sure if this would result an error, still you can try:
sc stop W3SVC

this will change the service startup to disabled:
sc config W3SVC start= disabled

reboot and check.
Sohail Ali13y ago
it says the specified service does not exist as an installed service
Javeed M Shaikh13y ago
hmm ok...

can you check the following

from command prompt:
sc query w3svc

what does this return?
Sohail Ali13y ago
obviously i m doing that,
Javeed M Shaikh13y ago
go to your desktop or just type press the Windows+R keys to open the Run dialog, type services.msc or Open the Control Panel, click/tap on the Administrative Tools icon, double click/tap on Services shortcut.
Sohail Ali13y ago
in widows xp and windows 7 that service is present but windows 8 its not there
Sohail Ali13y ago
Appreciated your immediae feedback.. I am a new user for windows 8. In windows 8 servivces.msc there is no such service present world wide
Javeed M Shaikh13y ago
I am assuming that you have already tried this when you said you disabled it from control panel, try to stop it and see that the option to automatic start on start up is disabled:

type services.msc from the command prompt -> scroll down to World Wide Publishing service and stop it.

OR

Go to control panel -> Administrative Tools > Services.msc > World Wide Publishing service and stop it
Sohail Ali13y ago
I have uninstalle the iis so i cannot open inetmgr. So i cant follow your step
Javeed M Shaikh13y ago
Hi Sohail,

do you need to stop the local web server on IIS 8, then Open IIS Manager and navigate to the web server node in the tree. In the Actions pane, click Stop if you want to stop the web server.