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Start Wamp server on windows automatically permanently

For those that have completely refused to use linux platforms for development, you might find this useful. As with all (aspiring) web developers, it’s always important to test your projects locally before putting it out there for the entire web community to see. One must-have developer tool for this purpose is WAMPServer. We’ve all wished it’s automatically up and running when we need it. These easy steps will help you automate WAMPServer to run on system start-up. For those unfamiliar with WAMPServer, it is a development package that lets you run web development projects locally. WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python. It’s basically four programs packaged to work as one. WAMP basically turns any Windows PC into a localized web server. The Linux counterpart is called LAMP, obviously. Once WAMPServer is installed in your PC, you’ll be able to test your web projects before putting it into the live environment. But I always found it a hassle to manually s...