Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP with Xampp
1.Download latest version of Xampp Self-extracting RAR archive(EXE) for windows from apachefriends.org site.
2.Start the exe and install it in your root c drive.(for more info please visit apachefriends.org)
3.After that run XAMPP control panel application from your desktop.
4.Start the apache and mysql services.
5.Open your browser and go to http://localhost/
6.choose your preferred language.Now you can see “Congratulations:You have successfully installed XAMPP on this system!”.