About 1 week ago, Apache stopped working on my WinXP work machine. I am guessing that our beloved admins pushed an update to the machine which is blocking Apache. I have tested and found the same results with both XAMPP 1.6.6a and 1.7.0. XAMPP is being, and always has been, run from a USB drive.
Running Apache_start.bat, I receive the subject message "Apache 2 is starting..." (nothing following the message), but there is no response from http://localhost or any pages stores therein.
WinXP task manager shows apache.exe running as a process.
Running xampp-portcheck.exe shows all ports Free.
Any ideas besides doing all of my web development at home from now on?