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I just downloaded and installed wamp5_1.7.2.exe.
It works well mostly, first go. This is a great improvement on trying to get php and MySQL to integrate by hand!
However, in phpMyAdmin, if I click a link to documentation, or ask to open a new phpAdmin window, my browser takes 30 secs plus of blank screen before it displays it properly. Moving around on the pages is also very clunky, with frequent freezes which last 30 secs or more. This does not happen when web browsing outside of WAMPManager, even with Apache and MySQL services running. After a few such accesses, my entire system slows right down, with CPU usage in the 60% - 80% range.
SQLiteManager also behaves in a similar manner if I try to access web based documentation from it. My Windows XP SP2 machine runs IE7. I am fully up to date on Microsoft critical updates. After I downloaded WAMP5, I used file Properties to unblock it. Windows Firewall is disabled, but I run McAfee (Virus scan only). In normal browser mode (outside of WAMP, but with both services running), I can access all websites via IE7 with no problems. My IE security settings are medium, but the problem occurs even if I set them so low that McAfee complains. I have a reasonably fast broadband line. Have others experienced this browser and system slowdown problem?

that is normal for their website, nothing to worry about.


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Thanks CyberSpatium - but there was more to it, and my system was locking up badly.

There was a real problem at my end, it turns out. I resolved this when I noticed that WAMP install had somehow picked up for my default browser the executable iexplore.exe in C\Windows\ie7 which has a date of 4 Aug 2004, i.e. has not been subject to Windows updates. This is set in three settings in C:\wampmanager\wamp.ini.

The settings should reference instead the iexplore.exe in C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer. This does get updated by Windows Update. Lines 274 onwards of my amended wampmanager.ini now read as follows:

[Menu.Left]
Type: separator; Caption: "WAMP5"
Type: item; Caption: "Localhost"; Action: run; FileName: "C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"; Parameters: "[localhost];; Glyph: 5
Type: item; Caption: "phpMyAdmin"; Action: run; FileName: "C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"; Parameters: "[localhost];; Glyph: 5
Type: item; Caption: "SQLiteManager"; Action: run; FileName: "C:\Program files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"; Parameters: "[localhost];; Glyph: 5

Everything is now up to speed.