Sharepoint Central administration gives a blank page after installing Sharepoint 2007 on Windows 7 64bit

This article shows the solution of the problem I faced after installing sharepoint 2007 on Windows 7 64 bit machine.

Note: this solution is applicable on Sharepoint 2010

The problem is getting a blank page instead of Central Administration after the configuration of Sharepoint on the machine

Cause of the problem:

The following authentication mechanisms are not installed or disabled on the IIS

1. Digest Authentication
2. Basic Authentication
3. Windows Authentication

To install them open command prompt and run the following command

Command 

start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures;IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors;IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility;IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics;IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools;IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication;IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic;IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility;IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel;WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation;WCF-NonHTTP-Activation

This will fix the problem.