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Friday, May 26, 2006 6:03 PM
Well that was annoying. For some reason my IIS default instance wouldn't start and errored instead with 'The service could not bind instance 1' - not a particularly useful message. What it means is IIS couldn't bind to port 80/443 because another application had pilfered it!! Turns out that application is Skype. In the Skype/Tools/Options/Connections there's an option to use 80/443 if it can't get through on the other ports. Turn this off and IIS is happy again!