I Cannot Locate World Wide Web Publishing Service in Services on Windows 10

Question

Please bear with me, I'm not 100% tech savvy - yet. When I try to run XAMPP (in order to experiment with local WordPress), everything runs except Apache. All the current data on the issue points me to stop the "World Wide Web Publishing Service" from "Services" in Windows 10.

However, I have found that the World Wide Web Publishing Service is missing from services, I have looked in both the Standard and Extended list, and it simply isn't there, neither is the variant "W3SVC."

I have also tried an entire search of my pc for both phrases and I came up empty. Please assist, I'm stuck and I have no idea where to go from here.

Answer 1

1. go to start -> programs and features -> turn Windows features on or off and enable: i. Internet Information Services ii. Internet Information Services Hostable Web Core.

2. Refresh Services

3. Done!