I've been racking my head over this same thing!
You were really close- it's the service. For the wamp services, go to:
Services->Properties->Logon Tab-> and check the box- "Allow services to interact with dektop.
That's it.
This was such a pain- I have a working InstantRails setup and then nothing on this would work at all. (I needed WAMP for a newer version of MySQL for a remo
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