Can not get localhost

I can not get http://localhost/ anymore.

I have recently upgraded from Win7 to Win10 in the belief that it will be faster, yeah right, joke joke. I had no complaints with WinXP.

I think that upgrade has caused the problem with http://localhost/ but I don' know where to start looking to rectify the problem. I have tried 3 browsers.

Can anybody help?

Unless you need Windows for some reason, using a Linux desktop OS will provide a better overall experience, and a far better development environment. I use Ubuntu and Xubuntu, but if your computer is old (because it used to have XP so I am just guessing), then you might try Lubuntu. Lubuntu is a very light version of Ubuntu.

The greatest benefit to using a Linux OS is that you will have a LAMP stack that runs in the native environment, and a match to the production environment (hosted website(s) are generally on Linux). Most Linux distributions have installers that will allow you to set them up as a dual boot with Windows, if for some reason the Live CD isn't convincing you to abandon Windows altogether.

Last, pretty much every software you could want for design and development is available for Linux (and for free), and if you need Windows you can just run it in VirtualBox. At this point, I only need the virtual environment for Photoshop and Illustrator, and since I am not really a designer but more of a developer, I very rarely need to start it up.

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