How To Fix: "Failed to access IIS metabase"

I was setting up new site on XP-Pro with IIS.

Error I could not go over was:

Failed to access IIS metabase

It was fixed by following command.

aspnet_regiis -i

It was not mentioned in the error page. It refers to

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=267904

But it was mentioned in
http://blog.devstone.com/Aaron/archive/2006/05/08/1586.aspx

Thank you,
Naoki