XAMPP Start automatically on Windows 7 startup

Question

XAMPP Version 3.2.1 installed on Windows 7. It didn\'t get started automatically on Windows boot.

Tried: looking in service, it shows neither Apache nor

Answer 1

Try following Steps for Apache

• Go to your XAMPP installation folder. Right-click xampp-control.exe. Click "Run as administrator"
• Stop Apache service action port
• Tick this (in snapshot) check box. It will ask if you want to install as service. Click "Yes".

• Go to Windows Services by typing Window + R, then typing services.msc

• Enter a new service name as Apache2 (or similar)

• Set it as automatic, if you want it to run as startup.

Repeat the steps for the MySQL service