Please check in your Vista Event logs to see if any information is recorded.

Start/Orb, type event, click on Event Viewer...

"Ross M. Greenberg" <greenber@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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>I still am not able to install IIS under Ultimate. Under Programs and
>Features I go to turn on IIS, and it appears to be going properly when I
>hit the okay button. The progress bar moves very slowly to the right, and
>pauses for a very long time (maybe 90 seconds?) at the extreme right
>before I get told that Windows was unable to complete the installation and
>that not all of the features may have been installed. I get an okay
>button, and I discover that nothing was installed at all.
>
> The same thing happens when I try to turn on almost any Windows feature,
> such as the .Net 3.0 framework, even by itself.
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ross
>
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