World Wide Publishing Service Windows Process Activation Service Won’t Start ,

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<div dir&equals;"ltr" style&equals;"text-align&colon; left&semi;">The World Wide Web Publishing Service service depends on the Windows Process Activation Service service which failed to start because of the following error&colon; The system cannot find the file specified&period;<br &sol;>The directory specified for the temporary application pool config files is either missing or is not accessible by the Windows Process Activation Service&period; Please specify an existing directory and&sol;or ensure that it has proper access flags&period; The data field contains the error number<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>IIS won&&num;8217&semi;t start because Windows Process Activation Service won&&num;8217&semi;t start&comma; then I need to get WAS started up first&period; However&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know what directory it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have access to&period; So i have started digging bit and found that there are some missing directories&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It looks like there SHOULD be a folder call <span style&equals;"color&colon; red&semi;">c&colon;inetpubtempapppools<&sol;span> and it just disappeared&period; No idea why&period; I just noticed recently when I tried to move from a local web development service to IIS itself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I created the folder&comma; started WAS&comma; then IIS and I was back up and running&period;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;