title: Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server, Failed to register URL, Access is denied
body: <p>Some web projects are causing me problems while others work fine. I decided to focus on one of the problematic ones.
  I'm using Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 7. I think I'm running it as administrator, the window title says <code>PROJECT NAME - Microsoft Visual Studio (Administrator)</code>.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to run the project I get a popup saying:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Unable to launch the IIS Express Web server.</p>
    
    <p>Failed to register URL "<a href="http://localhost:62940/" rel="noreferrer">http://localhost:62940/</a>" for site "SITE NAME"
        application "/". Error description: Access is denied. (0x80070005).</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This does not seem <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18454751/unable-to-launch-the-iis-express-web-server-error">entirely</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8188547/running-iis-express-without-administrator-rights">uncommon</a> but I have tried many of the suggestions without luck:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Deleted <code>%userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\</code>, tried to run.</p></li>
  <li><p><code>netsh http add urlacl url=http://localhost:62940/ user=everyone</code>, rebooted and tried to run. (Actually <code>user=Alla</code> since Swedish Windows).</p></li>
  <li><p><code>netsh http delete urlacl url=http://localhost:62940/</code>, rebooted and changed from <code>&lt;binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:62940:localhost /&gt;</code> to <code>&lt;binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:62940:/&gt;</code> in <code>%userprofile%\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config</code> and tried to run. (It did changed the error message to say <code>... URL "http://*:62940/" ...</code>.</p></li>
  <li><p>Reinstalled IIS 8.0 Express</p></li>
  <li><p>Reinstalled Visual Studio 2013</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I'm at my wit's end, what am I doing wrong?</p>
  
  <p>If I change the port of the project (e.g. to 55555) it starts... This is not a desirable solution since these projects are worked on by several people. Maybe the port is blocked by something else? If so, is there an easy way to check by what?</p>
  
  <p>Port 62940 seems to be free. Running <code>netstat</code> does not show any application listening to it. Something else must be wrong.</p>
  
  <p>I tried starting the project today after not touching it for a few months. It worked but I don't know why.</p>