XAMPP on Win7 too slow

If XAMP is slow under windows 7, the firewall settings make no difference.
The Security Essentials anti-virus makes no difference.

To solve this problem, the two things that make a big difference are:

1) in windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts add the following lines:

127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1

127.0.0.1 localhost

2) If you're using PHP, in the XAMP php.ini file uncomment the eaccelerator line:

zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_eaccelerator_ts.dll"

After these two changes, restart Apache and it will be way faster.

Not sure this might be the cause of your problems, but this might be an idea : do you have a line that looks like this :

::1 localhost

in your hosts (it should be somewhere like C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, if I remember correctly) file ?

If yes, comment that line by adding a # at the beginning.

This way, the only line that's about localhost should be

127.0.0.1    localhost

which is an IPv4 address ; and the one you commented being an IPv6 -- which is quite not useful for what you are trying to do.

As I said, not sure your problem is related to this, but I've seen this sugestion help a couple of times for problems quite similar to your (i.e. waiting a long time before doing anything on the server).

Comment the lines in PHP.ini with XDEBUG:

;[XDebug]    ;zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_xdebug.dll"    ;xdebug.profiler_append = 0    ;xdebug.profiler_enable = 1    ;xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 0    ;xdebug.profiler_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"    ;xdebug.profiler_output_name = "cachegrind.out.%t-%s"    ;xdebug.remote_enable = 0    ;xdebug.remote_handler = "dbgp"    ;debug.remote_host = "127.0.0.1"    ;xdebug.trace_output_dir = "C:\xampp\tmp"

    I disabled Bitdefeender -> no result    I added lines to hosts -> no result    I disabled xdebug - x2-x3 faster 

Best regards Barto