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 server does not start. I've also disabled my IIS but still, its not working. What should I do?
There are two things you need to check:
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
:
Change User Account Control
settings in the search results.Never notify
and 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
.