The World Wide Web Publishing Service service depends on the Windows Process Activation Service service which failed to start because of the following error: The system cannot find the file specified
Restarting WAS results in
"The Windows Process Activation Service service terminated with the following error:The system cannot find the file specified."

Fortunately Scott Hanselman's blog article comes to the rescue to identify the issue. Some of folders within c:\inetpub was missing and Scott taught the way to locate the problem using Process monitor.

Good to have an additional tool narrow down the issue.
2 comments:
Arvind
I am stuck with a same Issue, but my temp folder c:\inetpub\temp\apppools do exists, but there are not temp files in there.
Problem is that I cant get any services to start at my machine.
I am using Windows 2008 X64, did applied patch but no avail. How to you resolve it ?Your help will be appreciated
The apppools folder fix worked for me.
I had uninstalled and reinstalled IIS.
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