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This software gracefully installs recent versions of PHP5, Apache 2 and MySQL (with admin tools e.g. phpMyAdmin + much more) under Windows XP.
The only thing to be careful of is that you follow the instructions for configuring your firewall (which would otherwise block Apache and MySQL of course), remembering that MySQL uses an unusual port number (3306).