This is just a post to let others know about an issue I found with IIS and cell phone connectivity software. It is full of words and phrases that will hopefully be used by someone to search if they are having a similar issue.
For whatever reason, I was not able to run any application, html or .net through IIS on my windows xp pro, winxp pro. In a browser, any browser, the page would be requested and from that point on, it would just be waiting for a response. The page was just hung. Sometimes inetinfo.exe would be maxing out on cpu utilization, sometimes it wouldnt. The dev web server built into VS worked though, just not for everything.
I tried everything, granting permissions to everyone individually and everyone user. Used regmon and filemon to see if there were permissions issues, saw some errors but nothing definitive. Finally I found a comment in a forum for .net framework beta versions that someone was having issues after installing at&t cellular modem connection software. I didnt have at&t but i did have cell modem software. I uninstalled it and .net, IIS, etc are all working fine now.
I am not sure where the problem lies specifically, but somewhere it is there.