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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

Director of Digital Technology @TrekBikes, Father, Musician, Cyclist, Homebrewer

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

Unbelieveable!!!! I have been trying to figure this out for a long time. I am not the “command prompt guru”, so if this helps, I did the following…(not sure if any of this or all of this contributed, but it did finally install!

1) Made sure at the command prompt I was in C:/

2) Forever, I was typing in
esentutl /p c:windowssecuritydatabasesecedit.sdb
and getting an error…so I browsed in windows explorer to
C:WINDOWSsecurityDatabase where I saw a file called Secedit.sdb,.sdb. I made a copy, and named the copy Secedit.sdb

Then back to the command prompt…
esentutl /p c:windowssecuritydatabasesecedit.sdb

finally got the Integrity check successful. Then installed ISS successfully.

Thank you all.

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This site rocks. I was messing with installing IIS on a work laptop and unsuccessful for hours until I read this forum. many thanks!

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Thanks man normally when i google for something like this i get bollocks but this was my first click Nice thanks 🙂

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

I can only wonder how you found this solution! But well done!

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1. Copy code from this page

CODE: esentutl /p %windir%securitydatabasesecedit.sdb

2. In windows Goto Start / RUN / and paste the code in the RUN box and click “OK”

If your get a error say “OK” let it do its work.

it will fix the problem.

3. Go back to the menu thats asking for the c:i386

click restart

It should work and keep installing the file….

This was my steps to fixing the problem..

WOW… it WORKS! ty

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Man, wish I’d clicked on this link before clicking on the MS knowledgbase one – just wasted a late hour copying and integrating files according to MS only to get a stupid, flat error back ‘directory does not exist’

Steve – Thanks dude

Microsoft – you rubbish twats

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You are wizard beyond wizards. I have absolutely no idea how you managed to figure out this fix, but it works. I just copied and pasted into the run command line and off it went. Windows prompts to confirm the action, I just held my breath and clicked to proceed. Worked on an LG P1 running XP Pro SP2.

Thanks!

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Thanks very much this sorted me out too – just to clarify (coz i got this wrong a few times) copy and paste this “esentutl /p %windir%securitydatabasesecedit.sdb” into the command prompt – without changing anything.

i was removing the %windir% and typing in what i deduced to be the path to the windows directory on my machine (and it didn’t work) but if you just paste in that string – it works fine

thanks v much

PS Love Curt’s comment – number 20 😉

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Dude, Thx for this. It made my life a lot easier.

I have been trying to fix this for more than an hour now and your solution was the only fix I have found on the Internet.

Thx again,
Ben

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