>That'll work, but if you're IIS server is hung in any way (bad component or busy or still has open connections) it won't shut down. On a live server the above can take minutes.
>
>KILL does it very quickly - literally in a couple of seconds the server is down and back up in another 10 seconds.
Ah. I'll have to check it out!
"It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much -- the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams