Vista

Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program

Not sure what this is supposed to do, but when you click the little icon that starts when the computer does, you get to choose whether or not you want to use this software. Of course, if you choose not to, the OK button will not work. So much for free will with Windows Vista.

Installing PHP on Vista

I actually found the answer to this problem pretty quickly.

The php installation software did not work for some reason on Windows Vista. The only thing I saw that the installation program did incorrectly was that it id not add index.php as a directory index.

Therefore simply changing this: DirectoryIndex index.html

To this: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

fixed the problem.

I also copied php.ini to Windows folder for good measure. Why? Because someone said to do that in a forum. I figured it couldn’t hurt anything, not being an executable to begin with.