IIS Reset using Command Prompt

 

1) Open the Command Prompt. Click on Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt
Note: It may be necessary to right click on the Command Prompt icon and select "Run as Administrator", if the following steps fail with a warning stating the task requires elevation. 

2) Once the Command Prompt window opens, type 'iisreset' (without quotes) and then press Enter.

3) Or - 

To start IIS on command line, Open terminal and type:

c:/> iisreset /start

 Stop IIS via Command Line:

Use following command to stop IIS service on Windows operating systems. Either use Windows command prompt to run this command or execute it from run window.
c:/> iisreset /stop
ReStart IIS via Command Line:
Use the following command to restart IIS service on Windows operating systems. Either use the Windows command prompt to run this command or execute it from the run window.
c:/> iisreset /restart

[or]

c:/> iisreset
Default iisreset command restarts the IIS service. So you don’t need to provide /restart parameter option to iisreset command to restart IIS service
To restart IIS using the IISReset command-line utility
From the Start menu, click Run.
In the Open box, type cmd, and click OK.
At the command prompt, type
iisreset /noforce
.
IIS attempts to stop all services before restarting. The IISReset command-line utility waits up to one minute for all services to stop. If the services cannot be stopped within one minute, all IIS services are terminated, and IIS restarts.