About a year ago, I came across this freeware and I fell more in love with open source.

I wanted to add to my Vista operating system, web server functionality.

This magnificent tool installs the two most imporant products I needed, Apache and MySQL. I didn’t have to do it individually, with VertrigoServ, everything is installed under one roof (C:\Program Files\VertrigoServ)

In their official project website (link), they list all components that are part of the installed bundle.

I love how everything is centralized and minimized under a single icon which is displayed next to the time and date.

I know, there maybe other solutions out there, but I like this just fine