Last week when I was trying to install WAMP Server on my office computer to do some PHP coding, I found out that when I access localhost (http://127.0.0.1/) this error appears.

error ‘8002801c’

Error accessing the OLE registry.

/iisHelp/common/500-100.asp, line17

I searched around the net for possible solutions…

(1) On Internet Explorer it works fine but in Firefox the error appears.
(2) Windows is not installed correctly, and some files are corrupted.
(3) IIS and .NET Framework incompatibilities.

and some others. But the best solution I used was disable IIS completely, since I’m not using it anyway. But if you are using it (like for .asp) then don’t do this.

Remember that I’ve used this method for WAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) to work on my PC.

Solution after the gap.

1. Open Start, then Control Panel.
2. Open Administrative Tools
3. Open Internet Information Services (IIS)
4. Browse to your Default Web Site (RED), then click the STOP button (BLUE). This will fix the problem.
   
   You can also stop the SMTP Virtual Server (indicated by the second RED circle).

That’s it. Install WAMP, or any program you need localhost to run. Then it should be working fine.

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