Yes it is all straightened out. I could not wait 3+days for a reply so I found out myself after 1 day of waiting,but still looking. I had to run a command, not to uninstall mysql --it was uninstalled, but it was still listed in the services. That somehow interferred with something. I then immediately installed xampp for windows without a hitch and completely secured it with their exellent help system. It works flawlessly and all the time, you click something it is there-- not and error or warning you have to fix. I understand it is a built in security feature of uniserver, but it get in the way of the user. What a pleasure xampp is. It gives full easily understandable instructions on how to secure everything Uniserver may be great,I am sure it is, but it is not without its problems as far as I can see. There is just not as much readily available support on any subject. Support may be there, but waiting nearly 4 days for a reply is not good. Probably the longest I have ever waited for help with anything--freeware or shareware. I am not complaing just pointing that out. You do not owe me anything. If anybody is interested in where I found the answer it is here. This will probably uninstall mysql too,, I just needed to remove the listing in the services. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/...Q_21045731.html I am very new to all his and all of the above is just my opinion. I may be right, I may be wrong, all I know is that it is fixed. It may never have been a problem if I had not tried to install mysql as a service. It is my opinion the uniserver is not as easy to use as xampp is. I am sure of that. I now have apache,php 4 and 5. mysql and email set up.