Installing WAMP

I needed to install Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Vista for a project I am working on. I downloaded XAMPP which I had used several years ago for this purpose and it worked great... well that was on XP I ended up spending a couple days trying to get its Apache installation to work on Vista and never did get it actually working (and a Google search showed that I was not alone).

Then I remembered that BitNami had a WAMP installer. I downloaded it and for some reason the installer took a couple mintes to start which worried me. Once it started, though, the installation was really straight forward and most importantly it worked right out of the box without having to do anything else! :-)