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I just installed Wamp on Vista Home Basic and I changed the settings for IIS, and bringing up localhost on a browser has a 403 Forbidden Error. I barely have any idea what I'm doing, so please explain this to me like I'm your grandfather and know nothing about technology. Thank you!

IIS and Apache/Wamp are both web server and might conflict in some way, so you have to disable IIS in order for Wamp to work

Disable IIS in Vista/Win7:

Control Panel, Uninstall Programs, Turn Widows Features On or Off, uncheck Internet Information Services

Disable IIS in XP:

Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components, uncheck Internet Information Services (IIS)

Restart computer, then restart Wamp

Also, open file hosts in folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc and make sure you have only this line and nothing else

127.0.0.1 localhost

also, if susing skype then open skype... tools>options>connection>advanced> untick "use port 80"

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Thanks, I played around with what you said, and I got it to work.