Got burned by Vista
These, days, I'm back doing PHP stuff at home, and therefore had to install Apache. Of course, I could do PHP under IIS7, which would be easier, what with the nice administration interface and all, but I need to recreate the same environment as my hosting solution, complete with .htaccess and all that stuff.
One of the first thing you need to do in this situation is to add an alias to your websites because they probably aren't located in the default documents root.