I looked around the site, before posting and the only thing I could find was the Control Panel->Programs and Features-> Turn Windows Features On and Off.
As I said I had tried various compinations, every one simpler than the previous, of IIS components but none of the worked. I think there might be a problem with my system.
Today after I turned the machine on, which didn't happen yesterday in between my installation efforts, the system run a hard disk scan on the windows drive and corrected some errors. Maybe it was the sfc command, I don't know. The problem is that in the Windows Featurs dialog now there nothing to select or populate so something is even wronger than before
Thank you