WAMP Server V 2.5 icon is orange,does not respond and no menu

Question

I have Windows 7 32 bit and wanted to work on wordpress to host my own page but to do that I got virtual server WAMP Server V 2.5 and after installing it, icon in taskbar wa

Answer 1

Did you try switching MySQL ports? If you have another version of mySQL already installed outside of WAMP - you could run into the same problem..

When I tested port 3306 (default sql port) it told me it was being used by 'mysqld.exe' (but not 'wampmysqld64.exe' - WAMP's mysql) which was from a different version of MySQL I had previously installed on the machine and since forgot about.