I am using XAMPP, version 3.2.1. I just installed it on Windows 8. Every time I need to go to the XAMPP Control Panel to start services (MySQL, Apache,...); in Windows&
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as administratorC:\xampp\apache\bin
httpd.exe -k install
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as administratorC:\xampp\mysql\bin
mysqld.exe --install
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