

Open Run dialog ( Windows + R), type in this command and press Enter (or the OK button): taskkill /IM httpd.exe If for some reasons, the XAMPP icon doesn’t appear on the notification area, you can stop the Apache process using Windows taskkill command. The process is stopped when it doesn’t have the light green background anymore. On the XAMPP Control Panel dialog, click Stop at the Actions area on Apache to stop the process. Then, double click the icon: XAMPP icon on notifications area To do that, you can locate the XAMPP icon under Windows notification area. Stop XAMPP Apache processįirst, we need to stop the Apache process on XAMPP. *We assume that you already have XAMPP running properly. Here are the steps to change the primary PHP version in XAMPP on Windows.

Tutorial StartsChanging XAMP PHP version: Step by step

To run XAMPP on multiple PHP versions, we will have another in-depth tutorial on how to do that. *Note: This is for completely replacing the PHP version in XAMPP. This tutorial will guide you on how to replace the PHP version of XAMPP on Windows.
