I’m having real problems running XAMPP on my PC that is running Window XP Home Edition with SP2.

I also run ZoneAlarm, AVG Antivirus and AVG Anti Spyware, so I don’t know if any of this affects how XAMPP runs.

Basically, everything is fine for about 30 minutes. Then ZoneAlarm shuts down and all the modules in XAMPP go into Error. Then there appears to be a memory leak that causes nothing to start up and I have to re-boot.

Also, if I stop all XAMPP modules before they go into error, my PC still continues to run slowly and I have to re-boot anyway.

If anyone has any ideas why this happens, I would be grateful if you could leave a comment. It’s a real pain in the butt as I’m trying to add feature requests to the really simple sitemap plugin.

If I find a fix elsewhere then I will update this post.

UPDATE:
I have found a workaround for this:
Instead of using the XAMPP Control Panel to start Apache and MySql, I have been running xampp_start.exe. You can do this by simply double clicking xampp_start.exe in the programs/xampp folder.

I don’t know how many task-list-todo type software I’ve tried to try and get my working life in order.

But I reckon that I have found “the one” that is going to help my help me take all my ideas from concept to fruition - Tasks Jr which is developed by Alex King.

It has everything I have been looking for in a Task List app:

1. Really simple, yet functional.
2. Online so I can use it on my laptop and workstation without having to sync.
3. Ability to host on my own web server.

Tasks Jr is actually the free version of Tasks™ and Tasks Pro™, and lacks many of their advanced features.

One feature that Tasks Jr lacks is security, in that you have no username and password, but I have overcome this by installing it into a password protected folder which will do for now until I decide to upgrade to the next version.

If you are trying to find a task manager, then I would suggest you give this software a whirl. There is a demo at the website and there are also affordable hosting options available at UseTasks.com.

Site Page Tracker is a neat little piece of software that is pretty useful for finding out how you websites are doing in the search engines.

There is nothing flash about Site Page Tracker, but it is incredibly useful in giving you ‘at-a-glance’ knowledge of how all of your websites are doing in the search engines by immediately showing you how many pages you have indexed and how many backlinks you have in the 3 major search engines - Google, Yahoo & MSN.

You can then simply click on the table of results to go to the live data at the search engines.

Site Page Tracker can also provide data on how many of your articles have been published around the internet - although I have not used this feature yet, but can see that it would be pretty useful.

For me, the beauty of using Site Page Tracker is that I can immediately see which of my websites need a bit of work on getting indexed. This is a really useful aspect for people who have more than a few websites.

It works by uploading a few php scripts to your web server. Once this is done, there are a few simple settings to complete to get Site Page Tracker working and then you can see all your websites indexed pages and back links.

One of the scripts needs to be run each time you add a new website so that it can update the stats.

You can also set up a cron job to do this automatically each day. By doing this you then get a daily historical view of how you websites are falling in and out of the search engines.

Site Page Tracker is especially easy to install since it does not require MySQL (or any other database) which means less configuration hassles for the user.

I don’t know that there is a limit to how many websites you can track with Site Page Tracker. I’ve been adding heaps without any problems … It’s pretty cool to see how your competition is doing too

It’s also pretty cool not having to check each site individually to see how it is doing in the search engines.

Click here to visit the Site Page Tracker website.