Basic regarding W3wP.exe - IIS 8 - windows

Sorry if it looks so simple.
Am trying to find when W3wp.exe will show up in the process list. Am using Windows 2012 beta with IIS 8. I have web and wcf applications deployed in it. And i tried to browse the pages locally. But am not seeing process.
Please let me know if am missing something.
Thanks

Finally it worked. But i dono the exact root cause earlier
restarted the machine
Opened VS With Admin Previlages
i was able to see the process listed
Adding up -- For W3wp.exe to appear in the process list instance shuold be running already !

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Show all processes in all sessions

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IIS Manager is installed but shows empty page

I hope this is the right place to ask. I was thinking serverfault might not be correct, since the computer in question is not a server. Feel free to migrate if StackOverflow is not right.
I usually install IIS on servers but have installed it on Workstations before. I actually had the same problem with another machine of the same model a few weeks ago but can't remember how I resolved it. I must have installed additional features or run some powershell-command that did not resolve the issue on this machine.
I installed IIS the correct way using the Windows Features, as described in the answers to this question. I've actually removed and reinstalled it since then, but it hasn't resolved my problem.
The WWW publishing service is running and I can open the IIS Manager, but it's completely empty, unlike here where the IIS Manager at least shows the local computer
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You can see that all the required checkboxes are checked:
And the service seems to be running.
I've since tried installing IIS using
DISM:
Powershell:
And I checked the status using the iisreset command which was mentioned in the comments here (second linked question upstairs):
It restarts without any error and says everything is working fine.
Has anyone ever encountered this before or might know what I could try to get IIS actually working?
Edit:
I just noticed, while trying to uninstall IIS, that I can not uninstall it. I used Windows-Features and confirmed to reboot when prompted, but while rebooting Windows does a rollback and IIS is still available. So I can't even uninstall it.
Also just found this similar quesion on SuperUser. I'm still trying some suggestions there. So far to no avail.
Thanks for the comments.
I was on vacation, but a colleague was able to fix the problem.
Unfortunately, the solution was to reset Windows 11. He was then able to install IIS through Windows Features and it worked.
No idea why it didn't work in the first place, or why it got to this unrecoverable state. But now everything is fine.

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Open your cmd in administrator mode and run cmd
iisreset
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Unable to start debugging on the web server. Could not start ASP.NET debugging VS 2010, II7, Win 7 x64
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Try going to IIS and checking to make sure the App Pool you are using
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the app pool. You just need to right click and Start and you should be
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2) And this answer
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I have installed Windows Azure SDK for .NET - October 2012 version and I am using cache feature on my system.
With above error Below one is also comming.
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Maybe I have an stupid solution, but that works with me.
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It could be an issue with missing dlls, do you have the windows server appFabric installed as well on this machine, which may be leading to a conflict with the dlls?
A procmon log might help you see what file paths its looking for.
"http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645"
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As my primary .net dev is from a vm, my documents/projects drive is mapped to my native drive located at: \\psf\Home\Documents\... Once I moved the project to the vm c:/ drive, CacheInstaller worked as intended.
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My problem is when I run my MVC 3 app and try to attach to the w3wp process it is not listed in my available processes window and I'm completely stumped as to why not.
I've done everything as mentioned in Phil Haacks article. http://haacked.com/archive/2008/11/26/asp.net-mvc-on-iis-6-walkthrough.aspx - In IIS application configuration I've added aspnet_isapi as a wildcard application map. The views are .cshtml which weren't showing on the available extensions list so I added that but still no joy finding to process to attach to.
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are you sure you're viewing all processes running under all users? Typically W3WP isn't running under your user account, but NETWORK SERVICE or SYSTEM instead.

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