I have just installed XAMPP and everything works fine except that I can\'t get apache to run. It seems that port 80 is the problem, I have disabled Skype to use port 80 but
Do you have Bitnami installed? If so it is most likely one of those installations check by opening command prompt as admin or terminal in linux, enter this...
netstat -b
This will give an application name to those processes and ports in use. Look for :80 or :443