XAMPP installation on Win 8 1 with UAC Warning

Question

I am trying to install Xampp win32-1 8 2 on Windows 8 1  I get a message saying  Because an activated user account User Account on your system some functions of XAMPP are possibly restricted   I ve tried to change the user account control settings but still the warning is there  And the APACHE does not start  I ve also disabled my IIS but still  its not working  What should I do  Thanks

User · Answer

change User Account Control setting via control panel

step 1 -: Go to control panel

step 2-: select 'user Accounts'

step 3-: select 'User Accounts' (Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts)

step 4 -: select 'Change User Account Control settings'

step 5 -: Drag the slider down to Never notify and after click ok.

User · Answer

You can solve this problem by installing xampp in different Drive  Instead of C Drive

User · Answer

I have faced the same issue when I tried to install xampp on windows 8 1  The problem in my system was there was no password for the current logged in user account  After creating the password then I tried to install xampp  It installed without any issue  Hope it helps someone in the feature

User · Answer

To disable UAC  as an administrator   from Control Panel   Type UAC in the search button in your windows the upper right corner  Click the  Change User Account Control settings  in the search results  Drag the slider down and select  Never notify and click OK it will work

User · Answer

As ivan sim writes in his answer        Ensure that your user account has administrator privilege    Disable UAC User Account Control  as it restricts certain administrative function needed to run a web server    Install in C   xampp       Problem with the correct answer is in the explanation of point 2   and magicandre1981 writes more about it     Moving the slider down doesn t completely disable UAC since Windows 8    This is changed compared to Windows 7  because the new Store apps   require an active UAC  With UAC off  they no longer run      How can we then disable UAC and install XAMPP   Easy  Go to Registry Editor and navigate to  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Policies System     Right click EnableLUA and modify the Value data to 0     Then restart your computer and you re ready to install XAMPP

User · Answer

There are two things you need to check    Ensure that your user account has administrator privilege  Disable UAC  User Account Control  as it restricts certain administrative function needed to run a web server    To ensure that your user account has administrator privilege  run lusrmgr msc from the Windows Start   Run menu to bring up the Local Users and Groups Windows  Double-click on your user account that appears under Users  and verifies that it is a member of Administrators   To disable UAC  as an administrator   from Control Panel     Type UAC in the search field in the upper right corner  Click Change User Account Control settings in the search results  Drag the slider down to Never notifyand click OK    open up the User Accounts window from Control Panel  Click on the Turn User Account Control on or off option  and un-check  the checkbox   Alternately  if you don t want to disable UAC  you will have to install XAMPP in a different folder  outside of C  Program Files  x86   such as C  xampp   Hope this helps

User · Answer

I don t know if you are still having this problem  but I had the same problem and had a different fix than what was listed in the other answer   I did install XAMPP under C  xampp   and my user is an admin  but there was also something else   I had to manually go give my user full access to the C  Users XAMPP  directory   By default  at least on my machine  Windows did not give my admin user rights to this new user s directory  but this is where XAMPP stores all of it s config files   Once I gave myself full access to this  everything worked perfectly   Hope this helps   UPDATE   In retrospect  I think that I must have accidentally typed in  C  Users XAMPP   as the install folder during the installation process   So I think the most important thing is to make sure that the user you are actually signed into Windows as when you start XAMPP has full access to the folder that it was actually installed to

User · Answer

You can solve the issue by   Ignore the warning and Install XAMPP directly under C   folder  It will solve your issue  You can deactivate the UAC which i don t recommend  It s makes your PC less secure

User · Answer

There s nothing to be worried upon for this  Like other servers  install xampp somewhere outside of the default Program Files folder of Windows  It shall work fine   I previously had wamp server installed on my machine and i never understood why wamp server installs itself outside of the default directory  Xampp cleared this  now i have both the servers lying outside the Program Files folder and are running fine

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