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.

Thanks Skunkbad, yes my faith in Microsoft products is now rapidly diminishing, whereas before I never looked past MS. I have investigated Linux and seriously considering your recommendations, however I have learned that Linux does take some time to learn, and I'm not sure if that learning time is greater than the time I waste on MS products.

We do want to operate the intended website on our own server and aware of most servers are operated in Linux. We have advertised to buy a web server locally, new or used, but as yet we have not had any offers.

Please read my reply to InsiteFX as my problem does appear to be with Apache failing to continue to run.