If you want to install Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS 7) on your new Windows 7 computer first time after working with IIS 6 for long years, I believe you will be surprised with the improvements and changes both in IIS and IIS installation process.
Information services is not now using the internet information server for IIS. In this short guide I will summarize the steps of installing IIS 7 on Windows 7 in the way I had recently on my Windows 7 Ultimate Laptop.
IIS Installation
IIS 7 can be installed and features of IIS 7 can be added or removed by Windows 7 “Control Panel > Programs” management screen. You can add and install Windows 7 components and build in applications using the “Turn Windows features on or off” link.
When the Windows Features screen opens and generates in a short time a list of Windows 7 features installed and configured on the current system and a list of Windows 7 features not installed yet.
When the list is completed drill down the Internet Information Services node.
Internet Information Services – IIS 7 World Wide Web Features
Application Development Features
Security
Common HTTP Features
Health and Diagnostics
Performance Features
In the IIS 7 Performance Features section there exists compression functions for static content and dynamic content. You can choose any compression feature.
Internet Information Services – IIS 7 Web Management Tools
After you select all the necessary components, tools and features required for you click on OK button to start installing IIS 7 on Windows 7.You will have wait for a few minutes while Windows 7 is installing IIS 7 and changing IIS 7 features.
After the Internet Information Services – IIS 7 installation is completed you can browse to the http://localhost in order to see if your IIS7 is installed and start running on your Windows 7 computer.
If IIS7 (Internet Information Services) is up and running the following static web page will be displayed on your browser.
You can open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager console by following the below path.
Open “Control Panel > System and Security > Administrative Tools” then click on Internet Information Services (IIS 7) Manager icon to open the IIS 7 management console.
Here is the Windows7 Ultimate IIS 7 about section.
Enjoy! 🙂
Hrushikesh Zadgaonkar 
hi pro!
can u help me,pleaz?. I do all step u take,but i can not install iis7 . It found problem that “iis version 7.0 is required to used this product”, i’m running Win7 ultimate, so please help me
Best Regards,
kiban
Hi, Actually I have also done the same configuration on my windows 7 ultimate. If you are getting the issue with the iis version 7 then download it and install and then do the steps as I have proposed. I think it should work fine then ! If the same problem persists then feel free to ping me ! 🙂
I have a Dell Laptop running windows 7 It is not on a network. How do you get rid of that IIS7 window that pops up every time I go to http://www.google.com or http://www.bing.com
Hey Claudia,
This thread might be of your interest. http://forums.iis.net/p/1175118/1969719.aspx
great post!! thanks
It so great.
Thanks. Keep visiting 🙂
it can run if u have visual studio 2008…..
Just done all this for Vista…. and works a treat !!!! Anything that one needs to tick above for Windows7 that doesn’t exist for Vista…. ignore that…. and all works great ! Thanks !!
Welcome Andy 🙂
when I followed these steps on my win7 home basic I got this error….
HTTP Error 404.4 – Not Found
The resource you are looking for does not have a handler associated with it.
please tell me how to run php on iis
this was helpful…
Thanks!
I followed this page and i was able to see the default page and create a new site. To test I typed localhost ( i got default page) and when I typed ipaddress ( I got my new webpage). In the same network I was able to see these pages on other computer also. Now how to make this website public? please help.
Thanks,
anita
i was able to figure out router settings and make the webpage public.
Hello Hrushikesh,
just a few questions please tell me why in your example you didn’t choose all components for
like ASP, CGI, Basic Athentication or HTTP Redirection ?
Maybe you have expirence because I would like to make silent / unattendend installation for IIS
and I have found that I can use command-line tool for adding and removing Windows components, Sysocmgr.exe http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309506
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/222444/EN-US
but I don’t know how to create answer file.
also I have found script fro install IIS 7.5 but I’m not sure if my application will work with this version
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725762.aspx
Kind regards,
Darek
Thanks..:-)
you are very helpfull
Thanks Satya!
Thanks………….was very useful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the post. I tried many other blogs/links to get to IIS option in the administrative tools. Only your page got me there. Other pages (even help from MS site itself) was missing few steps). Thanks again
When I try to install a software in Windows 10 it says “IIS version 7 or greater is required” even though the latest version of IIS greater than 7 is already installed. Appreciate if you have any solution on it.
Hi Susit,
You can try following solution:
You can look at %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe. Right-click and get properties, click the Version tab.
You can also look at an HTTP response header
telnet mywebserver 80
type in HEAD / HTTP/1.0 [enter][enter]
Look at the line that starts with Server:
Regards,
Hrushikesh
Note: This solution is taken from http://serverfault.com/questions/10518/how-can-i-tell-what-version-of-iis-is-installed
This hasn’t work. I have a software to install and my machine has got IIS10 but it still shows “IIS7 version or greater is required”. Any idea how to resolve the issue?