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

In addition to MR Chandru"s answer above, do these steps after configuring XAMPP:

• open the directory where XAMPP is installed. By default it's installed at C:\xampp
• Create Shortcut to the file xampp-control.exe, the XAMPP Control Panel
• Paste it in

C:\Users\User-Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

or

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp

The XAMPP Control Panel should now auto-start whenever you reboot Windows.