

Turns out the same setting is in Windows 10 as well. The suggestion was that Windows 8 changed a setting where the CPU could drop down to 5% to save power. Then I can across this site with possibly the best domain name I’ve ever seen. Exclude Apache, MySQL, and PHP from firewallĪnd all of these seemed to help just a little bit, but so little that it could have just been psychological.Edit hosts file to point 127.0.0.1 to localhost.Googling brought a bunch of potential solutions It was almost unusable, although that’s not too surprising with the 250-300 database tables that Moodle uses. The slowness was especially noticeable working on Moodle plugins. There was also an upgrade to XAMPP as part of that, although I don’t remember what versions. It makes it trivial to get Apache, MySQL, and PHP set up.Since upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 though I’ve noticed it was running much slower. I’ve used XAMPP for pretty much as long as I’ve been doing web development.
