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
Sometimes there's a service running on the port which is needed by the sql server or apache.
Copy this string and save in a .bat file:
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=5" %%i IN (`netstat -aon ^| find "3306"`) DO taskkill /F /PID %%i
change 'find "3306"' in the port number which needs to be free. Then run the file as admin. It will kill all the processes running on this port