My topic says it all. Here is my printout from the xammp control panel. It's the dreaded error 0xc000007b. 5:03:25 PM [main]
Initializing Control Panel
5:03:25 PM [main] Windows Version: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
5:03:25 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 7.1.1
5:03:25 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.2 [ Compiled: Nov 12th 2015 ]
5:03:25 PM [main] Running with Administrator rights - good!
5:03:25 PM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
5:03:25 PM [main] Checking for prerequisites
5:03:25 PM [main] All prerequisites found
5:03:25 PM [main] Initializing Modules
5:03:25 PM [mysql] XAMPP MySQL Service is already running on port 3306
5:03:25 PM [filezilla] XAMPP FileZilla Service is already running on port 21
5:03:25 PM [filezilla] XAMPP FileZilla Service is already running on port 14147
5:03:25 PM [main] Starting Check-Timer
5:03:25 PM [main] Control Panel Ready
5:03:32 PM [Apache] Installing service...
5:03:35 PM [Apache] Service was NOT (un)installed!
5:03:37 PM [Apache] Attempting to start Apache app...
5:03:38 PM [Apache] Status change detected: running
5:03:45 PM [Apache] Status change detected: stopped
5:03:45 PM [Apache] Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.
5:03:45 PM [Apache] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
5:03:45 PM [Apache] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
5:03:45 PM [Apache] Press the Logs button to view error logs and check
5:03:45 PM [Apache] the Windows Event Viewer for more clues
5:03:45 PM [Apache] If you need more help, copy and post this
5:03:45 PM [Apache] entire log window on the forums
Just to reiterate, my command line tests show no blocks on ports 80 or 443. I've been through the entire checklist in the thread at the top of the forum page. No error log has been created. Please advise, thank you!!