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Every time I start the Apache from Control Panel it gets stopped automatically in 5-10 seconds. Please help with this problem.

Take a look in your Apache error.log file to get further information whats going wrong.
Most common is a missing port which another process already catched.

where is error.log located?

Found it and this is the error -

(OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open log

Your port 80 is blocked by another process (maybe IIS, Skype, Teamviewer, World Wide Web Publishing Service...)
Please run the xampp-portcheck to find out which process is listening on port 80

How to setup skype to use another port than port 80 ?

I don't know skype.
Anywhere in the configs should be a checkbox or something like that

Mr. Google!! -> "skype change default port"
Results on first page -> http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=31024
-> SKYPE-->Tools-->Options-->Connections