this happened for me yesterday
everything was running fine
( i had set all properly from Skype, etc. )
and suddenly the localhost just keeps on loading, and apache cannot start at all
i reinstalled xampp many times
i rebooted with apache & xampp as a service
i do not have any adobe apps in the startmenu
i uninstalled skype
and now with xampp 1.8 the very same thing
how can i get a tool, or a program that will know what needs to be fixed with apache?
i tried netstat already, and port 80 was used by windows 7 and that is all the info it would give me