WAMP Server doesn t load localhost

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I have a  small  problem with my WAMP Server  Everything worked fine  WAMP is on port 8081 - free port no matter what program I have open  yesterday but today  I can t reach localhost 8081  It s just keep loading and loading and loading     I have tried everything - open the port in my router and in my firewall  check that the port is currently open and reachable  which it is  and so on  I installed the latest Windows updates to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit earlier this day  restarted my computer and boom - I can t reach localhost 8081  It worked perfectly before I restarted the computer   The updates was KB2620704  KB2588516  KB2617657  and KB890830   Please  help me  I m literally dying inside if I can t work with my website  I have tried XAMPP too  Apach didn t wanted to be loaded  as usual  so I uninstalled it  I have even reinstalled WAMP Server 2 times since this happened  Even run CCleaner after each uninstall so everything with WAMP was gone before I installed it again   Thanks in advance

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Change the port 80 to port 8080 and restart all services and access like localhost 8080   It will work fine

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Solution s  for this  found in the official wampserver com forums       SOLUTION  1   This problem is caused by Windows  7  in combination with any software that also uses port 80  like Skype or IIS  which is installed on most developer machines    A video solution can be found  here  34 500  views  damn  this seems to be a big thing   EDIT  The video now has  60 000 views       To make it short  open command line tool  type  netstat -aon  and look for any lines that end of   80   Note thatPID on the right side  This is the process id of the software which currently usesport 80  Press AltGr   Ctrl   Del to get into the Taskmanager  Switch to the tab where you can see all services currently running  ordered by PID  Search for that PID you just notices and stop that thing  right click   To prevent this in future  you should config the software s port settings  skype can do that        SOLUTION  2   left click the wamp icon in the taskbar  go to apache   httpd conf and edit this file  change  listen to port       80  to 8080  Restart  Done       SOLUTION  3   Port 80 blocked by  Microsoft Web Deployment Service   simply deinstall this  more info  here  By the way  it s not Microsoft s fault  it s a stupid usage of ports by most WAMP stacks   IMPORTANT  you have to use localhost or 127 0 0 1 now with port 8080  this means 127 0 0 1 8080 or localhost 8080

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I faced a similar problem  I tried everything with ports  hosts and config files But nothing helped   I checked apache error logs  They showed the following error   OS 10038 An operation was attempted on something that is not a socket     AH00332  winnt accept  getsockname error on listening socket  is IPv6 available    Finally this is what solved my problem   1  Goto command prompt and run it in administrative mode  In windows 7 you can do it by typing cmd in run and then pressing ctrl shift enter  2  run the following command      netsh winsock reset  3  Restart the system

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