Is it safe to delete the InetPub folder

Question

Does anyone know if deleting the InetPub folder will hurt IIS or anything related     I am using IIS 7

User · Answer

If you reconfigure IIS7 to use your new location, then there's no problem. Just test that the new location is working, before deleting the old location.

Change IIS7 Inetpub path

Open %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config and search for

%SystemDrive%\inetpub\wwwroot

Change the path.

User · Answer

IIS will create it again AFAIK

User · Answer

As long as you go into the IIS configuration and change the default location from  SystemDrive  InetPub to  SystemDrive  www for each of the services  web  ftp  there shouldn t be any problems   Of course  you can t protect against other applications that might install stuff into that directory by default  instead of checking the configuration     My recommendation   Don t change it -- it s not that hard to live with  and it reduces the confusion level for the next person who has to administrate the machine

User · Answer

it is safe to delete the inetpub it is only a cache

User · Answer

Don t delete the folder or you will create a registry problem   However  if you do not want to use IIS  search the web for turning it off   You might want to check out  www blackviper com  because he lists all Operating System  services   Not  Computer Services  - both are in Administrator Tools  with extra information for what you can and cannot disable to change to manual   If I recall correctly  he had some IIS info and how to turn it off

[iis-7] Is it safe to delete the "InetPub" folder?

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