>>>>Showing my complete ignorance now - where can I find it and other options what are set? I opened IIS manager through RDP to the server.
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>>>(I don't have a server to verify this on at the minute so I'm just using this XP box as a reference so I may be off here..)
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>>>You'll need to look in the computer management console for the server (control panel/ Administrative Tools/ computer Management) and slick on the Services and Applications item in the tree, then click on Services in the subtree. Look for World wide Web Publishing service in the list on the right. Right Click on it and select Properties. Check the Startup Type dropdown in the middle of the page.
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>>Thanks a lot, William. I see also there Recovery options. I just set it to re-start for first and second faulure (it was set to "Take no action"). I left it "Take no action" in the third box.
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>>Let's see if this helps anyway.
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>I'd worry a little if IIS is crashing and having to be restarted via the recovery option. Are other web applications running on the web server that may be managing to crash really badly?

I need to explore what we have on the server.