How to turn on or off IIS on windows 7 or windows 8 ?

note: IIS stands for Internet Information Services...
Sometimes troubleshooting some issues with ports or others may require that you make sure your IIS is down or up as it is using by default the port 80. Even though there are many ways to do this I found this one particularly easier and decided to share it with you.

1. Simultaneously press Win + R keys and the Run dialog window pop up
           or
 type run in the lower bottom left textfield (prompting Search programs and files) under All Programs

2.  type: appwiz.cpl and Click OK

  

3. On the top left: click on Turn Windows features on or off

  

4.  Then finally you are there . Most obviously the second branch below Games will be Internet Information Services. You can turn it on or off by just filling or clearing the box...

You are now free to proceed accordingly depending of what you want to do. Stay blessed!

#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) Solved

Here come another crazy issue intended to waste our time uselessly.

After changing the root password from the phpMyAdmin under Privileges I started getting this disgusting error page. Definitely you may suspect your mysql config or apache config file. Unfortunately the problem reside elsewhere as you are going to see.

solution:

Goto--->xampp--->phpMyAdmin folder:
Here open the file: config.inc.php
and edit as follows from around line 18 to 22 :

Change it to:

Refresh it and You are done !

Apache (xampp) not starting on windows 7

Hi, I just pass another dirty 30 minutes trying to sort out this issue. Without this nonsense of Microsoft stopping the support of XP,  I would have never been there even .
 I installed a new version of windows 7 and also installed a latest version of xampp successfully. When I start apache later it couldn't start. Usually this problem is often caused by the port 80 being busy because of Skype, IIS, etc. However I don't have skype installed on my PC yet, even IIS is not running , I even when further in the CMD listing port with > netstat -aon  still no mention of port 80.
 I started realizing that I am dumped this time again my dear Microsoft black box OS (smile).

Solution:

I finally get it started by right clicking the Xampp Control Panel icon on the desktop and  
Run as administrator and boooooommmmmmmm it just fires like a charm. This may not be a standard solution but help you work around. We never make it till some times we fake it. That said stay tuned and don't forget to drop a comment....