Wampserver 2.1 gives orange icon after install on Windows 7

Question

I just installed Wampserver 2.1 on my windows 7 64bit computer and the icon that should turn green, turns orange, saying that the server is not ready.

The result is

Answer 1

Check each service individually. MySQL uses port 3360 so that might be blocked as well.

On a personal note, I've been finding WAMP a problem after version 2.0i, so I switched to a Linux VM or even another computer running linux for my PHP development.

Try EasyPHP since you can install that onto a USB drive so you can keep the "WAMP" with you.