There are so many WAMP solutions for Windows 7 (e.g., WampServer, Bitnami stacks, and EasyPHP). While many of them will work on Windows 8 without issues, XAMPP is Windows 8-ready.

Unfortunately, I encountered a widely reported issue. Apache PHP, MySQL are slow under Windows.. Terribly slow. Sometimes, even slower than deployed websites on the Internet. I had to wait from 3 to 10 seconds just to load a local WordPress website.

In this short post, I summarize all the proposed fixes and report which one really solved my problem.
The following are only a small part of the proposed fixes to solve WAMP slowness under Windows 7 and Windows 8: