Title: Problems installing wordpress via Microsoft Web Platform INstaller
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Problems installing wordpress via Microsoft Web Platform INstaller

 *  [kevinclarke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinclarke/)
 * (@kevinclarke)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-wordpress-via-microsoft-web-platform-installer/)
 * Dear Forum,
 * Apologises if this is a stupid question but as you can see I’m very new to wordpress
   and I’m trying to get over the first hurdle by getting it installed onto my windows
   7 PC using the Microsoft Windows platform installer, which seems to be the recommended
   way for a Windows 7.
 * It keeps failing with an error “Web Platform Installer has stopped working”. 
   This just appears to be when installing the WordPress part of the installation.
   The version of the Installer is version 3. There are no other errors reported.
 * Does anyone have any ideas to get around this?
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 * Kind regards
    Kevin

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 *  [nsathees](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nsathees/)
 * (@nsathees)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-installing-wordpress-via-microsoft-web-platform-installer/#post-2283603)
 * Ask bill gates!
 * Try installing XAMPP and then use that to install WordPress!

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