Visual Studio IIS Express hangs on launch, but IIS local works, why?

Question

I run Visual studio 2015 as administrator, start a new project, ASP.NET application, Empty 4.5.2 and then just add a simple html page. When I try to launch using IIS Expres

Answer 1

1. Right click on your web Project and click properties
2. Go to web tab on the right
3. In the server section, change local IIS to IIS Express

Hope this helps