WAMP server not starting and a mystery service is using port 80

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Published on 2013-11-09T23:58:09Z Indexed on 2013/11/10 3:57 UTC
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I'm using WAMP on Windows 7 and tonight I'm unable to start it (it's been working fine for about 3 years previously).

I first checked the logs, but nothing in there. So I checked the Windows Event Viewer (eventvwr), where I saw 2x errors for each attempted start -

The Apache service named reported the following error:
(OS 10048)Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80.

The Apache service named reported the following error:
no listening sockets available, shutting down.

After this, I opened the command prompt and ran netstat -a, and to my surprise there were 3 entries for port 80 -

Prot   Local Address  Foreign Address   State
TCP   127.0.0.1:80       MyPCName:53831   TIME_WAIT
TCP   127.0.0.1:80       MyPCName:57834   TIME_WAIT
TCP   127.0.0.1:80       MyPCName:57839   TIME_WAIT

From here, I'm kind of lost. As far as I can tell, something is utalising port 80, but I don't know what or why.

If anyone is able to suggest what I might do next I'd be most greatful. Thanks.

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