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Installing IIS – Cannot find STAXMEM.DL_

Post author By Steve Novoselac
Post date August 25, 2006
95 Comments on Installing IIS – Cannot find STAXMEM.DL_

Ahhh, IIS, gotta love it. Nothing can ever be easy.

So, as I am trying to install IIS on my Dell that I just reformatted, I get this:

Cannot find the file STAXMEM.DL_ in my C:i386 dir. hmm….

well, after a little looking, if you run this command

esentutl /p %windir%securitydatabasesecedit.sdb

If you then retry the install, it should work

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By Steve Novoselac

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95 replies on “Installing IIS – Cannot find STAXMEM.DL_”

Hey thanks a lot! Super helpful! Now I’ll be able to do my computer programing homework!

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great!!!
Great job! Thanks – after wasting hours of trying to install IIS, I can finally progress further.

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Thanks 🙂
Great solution. You saved my day

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I love you. Thanks!

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Lova ya man… thank you so much… 😉

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WORKS 100 percent..thnks!!

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when i run esentutl /p %windir%securitydatabasesecedit.sdb command following error

esentutl not a valid win32 application

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@Umesh, try quotes around it

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OMG. Thank you.

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Thanks for your command. I got it. But One think I know Microsoft always sucks….

Lot of pain for installing the .net and IIS…

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microsoft sucks at pretty much everything. i can’t stand them more and more each day. WHY would something like this have to be done to install a freaking windows component? and why would they lead you down a road leading to nowhere? why? because that’s what they freaking do.

unfortunately i have to install iis on my machine now because my company bought another business that runs all their web apps on microsoft crap called .NET no disrespect to all the .net guys out there, but man, i’ve been programming some decent web stuff for years using php, cold fusion even asp but this .net stuff is just wrong. you have to have a machine that’s TOP of the line to even load the freaking visual studio on, and forget about opening up a large project unless you have 2 or 3 gig of ram.

stevie – you are the man. saved my a@@ here on a late friday night.

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@rdmjr ,

Yes rdmjr, Yesterday only I installed tat IIS and Visual studio for my company projects only. I hate their specification for hardware requirements and even the every component installation.

I’m the good PHP developer. But I heared about ColdFusion.

hmm… check out their Live(eg. Live Drive) Products.. It is also sucks…

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Thanks, The problem solved.

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graet..
it really works…
i m trying it for such a long time..
& finally got done..

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Ok, Steve, i tried that, but didn’t worked…
but something else did.
Here’s what i did
1] Just check the support page given by Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894351/en-us
2] Now, mine was 2nd problem, i.e., the “secedit” database
was all fine, (integrity check successful).
MS says, the file actually is missing from the XP SP2
installation and we need to add it from the XP SP CD.
I was not having the XP SP CD, hence i did the foll….
(a) Create a “winxp” folder in C:
(b) Copy “I386” folder from setup CD in winxp.
(c) Download the “staxmem.dll” file from the foll.
location,
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?staxmem
(d) Now, install IIS, and give “C:winxp” as the path.
and hopefully, it shud work for all of u.

If you find, aby issue or error in the above procedure, do mail me.

Thank you.

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Thanks a lot. Perfect solution!!!. I would go mad resolving this issue.

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you just made my day!! A thousand thanks!!

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AWESOME FIX! THANKS!

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thax dude

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Thank you

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Can someone tell me how to get the command prompt while in the middle of an installation? Other dl_. files can not be found also. Thanks.

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Thanks a lot .. i was finiding the solution from long back..

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Absolutely amazing. Thanx.

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I love you.

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i love you too thanks alot

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man thnx a lot..u just saved me…hats off!!

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Great, did the trick for me.

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works :):) THANKXXXXXXXX 🙂 almost saved my life!

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thank you so much. greetings from germany!

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thx. very good!

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[…] their drive? It’s possible it’s looking for a current version. Actually I Googled it…found this: http://blog.stevienova.com/2006/08/2…nd-staxmemdl_/ "if you run this command esentutl /p %windir%securitydatabasesecedit.sdb If you then retry […]

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