Wamp - Service has not been started

Question

I am at a loss here. I installed wamp2.5.

When I try to put it online I get a message as follows.

I tried changing the port in the apache.conf file to 8080, but I still get the same message.
Skype is not using port 80.

Doing the following also did not work
* Press (Windows+R)
* enter "services.msc" and click "OK"
* locate service with name 'wampapache'

Tried starting it from here and tried setting it to automatic start, but i get this

Why?

Answer 1

Okay so I got to the bottom of this.

After investigating the windows system event log reachable like this.
Start button->Control Panel->System and Security->Administrative Tools->Event Viewer

Wamp is installed on my H:\ drive

so in my httpd-autoindex.conf file i had the following by default as per instalation

Alias /icons/ "c:/Apache24/icons"

<Directory "c:/Apache24/icons">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

When I changed it to the following everything just worked.

Alias /icons/ "icons/"

<Directory "icons">
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all 
</Directory>