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IIS Express refuses connections on port 8080

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I have installed IIS Express and Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web on a Windows 8 PC.

New websites created by VSE are bound to port 8080 on localhost.

As I understand it, this is an unreserved port, and I should be able to access my IIS Express website using http://localhost:8080/MySite/MyPage.aspx

In fact, according to IIS Express documents, I should be able to open this page as a non-administrator.  As it stands, I can only open such a site in Internet Explorer when the project is open in Visual Studio Express!  Once I close the project in VSE I get a "connection refused" error when I load the page in IE.   This applies whether or not I have set Administrator level in Internet Explorer.

Regrettably I am trying to make this work on a Windows 8 PC.

Would GREATLY appreciate suggestions on a fix for this. 


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