How to fix the “failed to register url the process cannot access the file” problem

by Steve French in How To Fix on May 1, 2020

This happens when you attempt to run and install a Visual Studio 2019 web project – after several hours of searching (and uninstalling/reinstalling things) I came across this solution from the Visual Studio Developer Community – specifically

The fix is to run the following command from an admin cmd prompt:

netsh http add iplisten ipaddress=::

and that fixed everything – note the weird syntax