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I do not want IIS to start automatically with Windows. How do I change this? Is there a setting in IIS manager? I have looked around in the menus for one but I couldn't find an option.

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    I would suggest that professional admins often support developers -- we all know DevOps is on the ascent at the moment. Dev's often need certain services on or off that may differ from a production deploy. – EricB Apr 02 '14 at 21:05
  • Yes, but development environments are still explicitly [off-topic](http://serverfault.com/help/on-topic). If you want to open the discussion about that policy I would recommend asking on [Meta](http://meta.serverfault.com/). – HBruijn Aug 22 '14 at 15:38
  • Regardless, this is in fact a very helpful question. Should be moved to another site? Superuser perhaps. – zeel Apr 20 '15 at 19:53
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    @HBruijn: how can this question be off-topic if it is about IIS server and the first bullet-point of the linked "on-topic" site is _"managing the hardware or software of servers"_? – Sk8erPeter Feb 01 '16 at 07:33
  • @Sk8erPeter primarily because Windows 7 is not a **server** operating system. - Moving the question is only possible within 30 days of posting and although the answer is useful the question remains not topical, hence the status of closed. – HBruijn Feb 01 '16 at 08:27
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    @HBruijn: yes, it's true, but IIS _is_ a **server**, so I don't really understand why server-related questions would be off-topic here. :) It doesn't really matter if you install IIS on Windows Server 20xx or Windows 7-8-10. Based on your argument, Apache-related questions would also be off-topic if it was installed on Windows 7... – Sk8erPeter Feb 02 '16 at 16:04

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In services.msc set World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3svc) to manual instead of automatic start.

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  • I was writing that LOL - just with a very small bit more detail. – MikeBaz - MSFT Mar 07 '12 at 02:42
  • If you feel like you can improve on my answer, edit away! – MDMarra Mar 07 '12 at 02:43
  • not at all, or I would have :) I did upvote though! – MikeBaz - MSFT Mar 07 '12 at 02:45
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    OK I found "World Wide Web Publishing Service" but not W3svc. Is that the same thing? – Rachel Richter Mar 07 '12 at 02:47
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    Yes, it's the same – MDMarra Mar 07 '12 at 02:59
  • nice and simple! thanks, it's annoying when I'm a php developer and I've got windows running on these new machines with IIS installed and it starts up automatically, and installing a linux OS is impossible because of windows 8 – pythonian29033 Oct 01 '13 at 07:56
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    @pythonian29033 `and installing a linux OS is impossible because of windows 8` what exactly does having Windows 8 have to do with installing Linux? – MDMarra Oct 01 '13 at 13:13
  • Windows 8 has this setting in the BIOS that the new ultrabooks come out with, so that windows8 can be in a sleep state when the user switches the machine off. this setting makes the BIOS ignore other boot devices/OSs when starting up and merely brings windows8 out of its sleep state so that it seems that it's starting up quicker – pythonian29033 Oct 01 '13 at 13:31
  • @pythonian29033 link, please. The common complaint is about SafeBoot, which is easily disabled and will allow Linux to be installed. I've never heard of what you're talking about. – MDMarra Oct 01 '13 at 13:59
  • SafeBoot is only one of the changes, that is what I was talking about, I couldn't remember the name, but when you install Linux successfully, If you restart the machine windows is corrupt, so you lose all your windows data and linux is unusable also – pythonian29033 Oct 01 '13 at 14:47
  • I don't know why Microsoft did not use IIS as its services name! – VSB Aug 22 '14 at 10:50