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hi there!

please pardon me as well as I am new to this.

I encountered similar error message as JohnRussell for starting Apache.

2:25:15 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel
2:25:15 PM [main] Windows Version: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
2:25:15 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.2
2:25:15 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.1 [ Compiled: May 7th 2013 ]
2:25:15 PM [main] You are not running with administrator rights! This will work for
2:25:15 PM [main] most application stuff but whenever you do something with services
2:25:15 PM [main] there will be a security dialogue or things will break! So think
2:25:15 PM [main] about running this application with administrator rights!
2:25:15 PM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
2:25:15 PM [main] Checking for prerequisites
2:25:15 PM [main] All prerequisites found
2:25:15 PM [main] Initializing Modules
2:25:15 PM [Apache] Problem detected!
2:25:15 PM [Apache] Port 80 in use by "Unable to open process" with PID 4!
2:25:15 PM [Apache] Apache WILL NOT start without the configured ports free!
2:25:15 PM [Apache] You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application
2:25:15 PM [Apache] or reconfigure Apache and the Control Panel to listen on a different port
2:25:15 PM [main] Starting Check-Timer
2:25:15 PM [main] Control Panel Ready



I have checked that I am running on administrator rights on my pc, so I would assume that my issue may lie with the following error message:

2:25:15 PM [Apache] Port 80 in use by "Unable to open process" with PID 4!

I have tried going to my Task Manager processes and find PID 4 but was unable to.

Appreciate if anyone could help me troubleshoot which step went wrong and how can I resolve this.

Thanks!

Logged in with an administrator account is not the same thing as running the program with administrator rights. Thank Microsoft and their UAC.

Hi bluedino,

For PID 4 Port 80 issues, this way please: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=58765&p=220603#p220603

best wishes,
Altrea

Hi Altrea,

Thanks for the link.

I've turned off the features for IIS in Task Manager and disabled Skype from using port 80.

However, I wasn't able to locate MSSQLSERVER in Task Manager to turn off the feature from running.

Is there any workaround to stop it from running?

Thanks!

bluedino wrote:However, I wasn't able to locate MSSQLSERVER in Task Manager to turn off the feature from running.

Windows services window (Windows key + R => services.msc)?