by Mary Cooch.
Hi Gareth - I managed to edit and resave the hosts file by running notepad as admin but it did't make any difference and in the end I got fed up with Xampp and have uninstalled it and am going to have another go with Wamp (having found some more instructions online for Wamp and Windows 8 ) Rapidly getting disillusioned with Windows 8 though (no, actually, disillusioned already) That said -whenever I whinge on twitter, Microsoft Help twitter account is always offering suggestions so I'm not dissing them completely)