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82 Comments on “Installing IIS – Cannot find STAXMEM.DL_”

1. Brian
   October 21st, 2006 at 8:26 pm

   Thank you! I’ve seen this error many times, and not found a good solution until now.

2. Bastiaan
   November 25th, 2006 at 10:19 am

   Great!

3. ne var lenn
   December 3rd, 2006 at 12:44 pm

   10x
   simple and working ;)

4. Adam
   December 22nd, 2006 at 9:50 pm

   Thanks for putting this up…I had the same issue your solutuion worked liked a charm….

5. Jeff
   January 19th, 2007 at 11:50 pm

   What exactly does that command do and why it is nessasary? It did fix the problem though. A+++++

6. Juris
   January 29th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

   Thank you very much! I had this problem for quite sometime now. It worked!!!

   Plain and simple…

7. bigperm
   February 1st, 2007 at 2:52 pm

   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:windows\security\database\secedit.sdb
   and getting an error…so I browsed in windows explorer to
   C:\WINDOWS\security\Database 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:windows\security\database\secedit.sdb

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

   Thank you all.

8. Guillaume
   February 14th, 2007 at 10:36 am

   Thank you it works !!!! Merci beaucoup pour cette aide.

   Bonne journée

9. Mohammad
   February 27th, 2007 at 12:07 pm

   Thnx alot
   it is really working :)
   Shokran

10. Thankfull
    March 10th, 2007 at 7:47 am

    This really had me stumped. Thanks for the solution!

11. Peter
    March 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 am

    Thanks for this. Fixed the problem right away.

12. Keith
    March 30th, 2007 at 10:12 pm

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

13. Jonathan
    April 18th, 2007 at 12:31 pm

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

14. Ven
    April 21st, 2007 at 10:15 am

    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!

15. Laura
    April 23rd, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

    You saved me at least a handful of hair. Thanks for sharing.

16. frank
    May 9th, 2007 at 1:31 am

    great!!!

17. McFly
    May 19th, 2007 at 8:02 am

    1. Copy code from this page

    CODE: esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.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

18. Awesome!
    May 21st, 2007 at 3:32 pm

    My IT department couldn’t figure it out. A little help from google to find this page and you delivered! Who do I send my check to?

19. Alwin
    June 13th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    Thanks a lot Dude .. Perfect …
    Was almost dead trying to solve this problem ,,,…

20. Curt
    August 21st, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    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

21. James Baldwin
    September 2nd, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    Don’t know what it did, but it works. MAY GOD BLESS YOU with many beers.

22. Rodrigo
    September 4th, 2007 at 10:10 am

    tks vr much!!

23. Powers
    September 5th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

    Thanks a ton man I have been working on this issue for a few days!!!

24. Suresh Shah
    September 12th, 2007 at 8:24 am

    esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb took care of my problem. Thanks.

25. nico
    September 13th, 2007 at 12:02 am

    Perfect!\
    Thanks
    I had the same problem!

26. Carl
    October 16th, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    I’ve been chasing my tail with this problem for weeks. Even my I.T. department couldn’t solve it.

    Many Thanks

27. Jim
    October 27th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    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!

28. Genji
    December 28th, 2007 at 1:50 am

    Thanx heaps! You saved me a weekend of headache.

29. Nikhil
    January 30th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    thanks a lot buddy

30. Dejan
    February 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    Great!!!
    Thanks!

31. Miriam
    February 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    Muchas Gracias!!!! Que chido!!
    Thank’s a lot!!

32. nick
    February 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    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%\security\database\secedit.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 ;)

33. andy
    March 13th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    thanks man.

34. Ben
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    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

35. Simon
    April 14th, 2008 at 5:48 am

    Hi,

    Thanks so much for this – the MS KB article is utterly useless

36. Reza & Mehdi
    April 20th, 2008 at 12:17 am

    Thx Veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

37. RK
    June 10th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    Excellent solution…thanks a lot

38. Techzone12
    June 26th, 2008 at 10:11 am

    It worked like a breeze. Thanks a lot!!

39. Techzone12
    June 26th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    I am book-marking this website.

40. Ginmax
    July 11th, 2008 at 2:52 am

    It work….. you won :D

    TY !!

41. jmor
    July 31st, 2008 at 2:11 am

    I’ve been having this problem for the last 4 months…
    tnx bro… ur great

42. Giox
    August 8th, 2008 at 6:27 am

    THNXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

43. u
    August 9th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    my god ur the man

44. ubdra
    August 21st, 2008 at 5:11 am

    thaaaannk youuuuuu!!!!

45. Me
    August 25th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

    Thanks.

46. Anonymous
    August 31st, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    Good Man…
    Realy Help Me….

47. Franco
    September 9th, 2008 at 5:13 am

    (from Italy) I can’t belive it !!!
    After 2 day finally I find this page !!!!!!!
    Thank you, you really help me

48. Andrey
    September 16th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Thanks!!

49. Zeiad
    September 17th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    thanks a lot,

    You are the man 10/10

50. Jack
    September 21st, 2008 at 4:32 am

    Works great!! I couldn’t do it without this help.

51. Brett
    September 23rd, 2008 at 3:21 pm

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

52. cocoluigi
    September 26th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

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

53. Anonymous
    September 29th, 2008 at 4:33 am

    Thanks :-)
    Great solution. You saved my day

54. Maddie
    October 7th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

    I love you. Thanks!

55. Zoquetacos
    October 17th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    Lova ya man… thank you so much… ;)

56. hittesh
    November 16th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    WORKS 100 percent..thnks!!

57. Umesh
    November 19th, 2008 at 3:43 am

    when i run esentutl /p %windir%\security\database\secedit.sdb command following error

    esentutl not a valid win32 application

58. Steve Novoselac
    November 19th, 2008 at 10:38 am

    @Umesh, try quotes around it

59. Kathy
    November 20th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    OMG. Thank you.

60. albert
    November 21st, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Hi

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

    Lot of pain for installing the .net and IIS…

61. rdmjr
    November 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 am

    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.

62. albert
    November 22nd, 2008 at 4:59 am

    @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…

63. jain
    December 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 am

    Thanks, The problem solved.

64. Baneet Sharma
    December 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

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

65. Prasanna Mondkar
    December 14th, 2008 at 2:17 am

    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.

66. Mohyuddin
    December 21st, 2008 at 5:04 am

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

67. horhey
    December 21st, 2008 at 11:06 pm

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

68. RJD
    December 23rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm

    AWESOME FIX! THANKS!

69. manu
    January 8th, 2009 at 11:10 am

    thax dude

70. Baatat
    January 16th, 2009 at 8:02 am

    Thank you

71. Rich
    February 6th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    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.

72. Mohan
    February 9th, 2009 at 1:22 am

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

73. Razor
    February 10th, 2009 at 11:53 am

    Absolutely amazing. Thanx.

74. qqw
    February 14th, 2009 at 7:08 am

    I love you.

75. johany
    April 5th, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    i love you too thanks alot

76. fakhru
    April 8th, 2009 at 1:58 am

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

77. muhammad
    April 24th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    Great, did the trick for me.

78. sub-sero
    May 8th, 2009 at 4:06 am

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

79. dirk
    May 20th, 2009 at 7:56 am

    thank you so much. greetings from germany!

80. fred
    June 9th, 2009 at 2:45 am

    thx. very good!

81. Can't install IIS | keyongtech
    June 10th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    [...] 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 [...]

82. bopbopbop
    June 24th, 2009 at 10:01 pm

    ya! how on earth did you figure out a way around it?!
    great! thanks much

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