XAMPP on Windows 10

After installing XAMPP, any attempt to start Apache from the control panel was met with port blocked.
The solution is to right click and run as administrator. Then click the shell button and type: sc stop w3svc.
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Setting environment for using XAMPP for Windows.
sal@MYA55 c:\xampp
# sc stop w3svc

SERVICE_NAME: w3svc
TYPE : 20 WIN32_SHARE_PROCESS
STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING
(NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x1
WAIT_HINT : 0x4e20

sal@MYA55 c:\xampp
#
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Now typing

http://localhost

in your browser should yield: