Hi Ric. I'm really sorry for taking so long to respond. I had some personal stuff to take care of first. Well, I checked my hosts file, but everything seems to be normal. Visiting 127.0.0.1 has the same result as localhost. I downloaded 5.5 this time, and it's still the same issue. So I'm beginning to think this may be caused by previous setting on my laptop. I did use this same system to test out previous versions of Uniform. There was a similar problem that someone else had, but deleting the extra firewall entries didn't fix it. I even went into the registry and deleted all previous instances of apache.exe and mysqld-opt.exe. Namely in my Services list there was still a MySQLS1 showing up from a previous test and I thought there might be some conflict. I'm really running out of options here edit_ I just downloaded and ran the latest Wordpress Miniserver and everything worked beautifully! Servers started and stopped as expected, drive mapped successfully, all pages worked with no errors. It seems as though only the full version has the issue. As you said, it's a blinder.