Have WAMP start automatically upon Windows start-up (without logging on or any UAC interference)

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George picture George · Dec 7, 2012 · Viewed 89.8k times · Source

I'm looking to have WAMP start when I switch on the computer. Ideally it would start without users even having to log on. I've added WAMP to the start-up in the registry but a user needs to have logged on and UAC is still playing it's annoying part.

Is there a way to accomplish this without logging on or UAC interfering?

Thanks.

Answer

George picture George · Dec 7, 2012

Follow these instructions to start the appropriate WAMP services on start-up. UAC will not interfere here and there is no need to log in to start your web-server:

  1. Log in as an administrator.

  2. Start -> Run "services.msc"

  3. Right click the service wampapache (may also be called wampapache64). Go to properties and set start-up type to 'Automatic'

  4. If you want MySQL to also be available on startup, then repeat step 3 for wampmysqld (or wampmysqld64)

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Tried and tested on Windows 7-10

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