Problem: IIS 6, all websites are stuck in stopped state. When you try to start them you receive the error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.
Restarting IIS and rebooting the server do not solve the issue.
Solution: This is one of those extremely environmentally unique solutions. It is possible that a shared dll that IIS 6 relies on has become unregistered.
Try running the following command: regsvr32 qmgr.dll
Then reboot the server and start the failed websites.
Vinay
September 13, 2011 at 2:34 am
I tried this but getting the following error in command prompt
Error Message is : DllRegisterServer in qmgr.dll failed
Return code was 0×80070005
Githinji
January 30, 2012 at 11:41 pm
thanks very much. worked perfect for me.
wattsup
January 31, 2012 at 9:41 am
Glad that worked for you.