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I have recently installed XAMPP on my Windows 7 computer. My SQL starts fine but Apache does not. I have run a port check and under port 80 is says SYSTEM. I have tried to do the fix where you change the listen port to 85 but that does not help. Any help would be most grateful.

Revert your httpd.conf file back to the default but make sure that line Listen 80 is used and not Listen 127.0.0.1:80.

System usually means that IIS or World Wide Publishing is using the ports or some other Windows service related application.

Disable completely IIS and do the port check again and all should be free, then try and start Apache again:
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Hi,

I had recently the same problem. Try to shutdown some services. My problem was the World Wide Web service which is used by IIS. Although you do not have to it installed for some reason this service is required.

This applies most for port 80 and 443 (Could not bind or similar (0.0.0.0:80/0.0.0.0:443) error if you try to start xampp_start.exe).

I also encountered the same problem with port 443 (0.0.0.0:443/SSL). This was caused by poorly configured VPN connections. After i removed "incoming connections" icon from my network connections the problem was solved.