Wamp server on windows 10 Icon Red and I can't left or right click on it either

Question

OK: Not only is my WAMP Icon Red but I can't get anything to appear if I right or left click on it. Hovering over the icon I get "None of 2 services running - server off line".

I have

• Installed VC C++ Redist from 2008 - 2015.
• Uninstalled Skype.
• Disabled World Wide Web Publishing Services.
• Made sure my Host file had "127.0.0.1 localhost" and "::1 localhost" enabled.
• Installed 32bit version of WAMP.

I would given changing the listening Ports a crack but not being able to click on the WAMP icon I wasn't confident enough to change the files in the folders (Eg. Found multiple copies of httpd.conf). Would have thought steps 2 and 3 would have made this unnecessary anyway.

If in Services, I manually start wampapache and wampmysql I can access localhost/phpmyadmin and localhost/domainfolder, set up databases, install wordpress, etc. Clearly something is going wrong and I'm sure it's destined to give me furthur grief. Any Ideas? I have included my error logs and a screen shot below with my system info.

"Apache_error_log" 

[Thu May 05 13:17:27.453022 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 8056:tid 120] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu May 05 13:17:27.484243 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 8056:tid 120] AH00455: Apache/2.4.17 (Win32) PHP/5.6.15 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu May 05 13:17:27.484243 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 8056:tid 120] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC14 Server built: Oct 11 2015 16:06:02
[Thu May 05 13:17:27.484243 2016] [core:notice] [pid 8056:tid 120] AH00094: Command line: 'C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.17\bin\httpd.exe -d C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.17'
[Thu May 05 13:17:27.484243 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 8056:tid 120] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 6692
[Thu May 05 13:17:27.874894 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 6692:tid 428] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu May 05 13:17:27.890536 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6692:tid 428] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Thu May 05 14:14:30.816395 2016] [authz_core:error] [pid 6692:tid 1100] [client 192.168.0.166:2569] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: C:/wamp/www/
[Thu May 05 14:30:49.331784 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 8056:tid 120] AH00422: Parent: Received shutdown signal -- Shutting down the server.
[Thu May 05 14:30:51.363140 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 6692:tid 428] AH00364: Child: All worker threads have exited.
[Thu May 05 14:30:53.144329 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 8056:tid 120] AH00430: Parent: Child process 6692 exited successfully.
[Thu May 05 15:01:43.930134 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 7168:tid 592] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu May 05 15:01:44.273944 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7168:tid 592] AH00455: Apache/2.4.17 (Win32) PHP/5.6.15 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Thu May 05 15:01:44.273944 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7168:tid 592] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC14 Server built: Oct 11 2015 16:06:02
[Thu May 05 15:01:44.273944 2016] [core:notice] [pid 7168:tid 592] AH00094: Command line: 'C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.17\bin\httpd.exe -d C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.17'
[Thu May 05 15:01:44.273944 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 7168:tid 592] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 628
[Thu May 05 15:01:44.711410 2016] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 628:tid 492] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Thu May 05 15:01:44.805095 2016] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 628:tid 492] AH00354: Child: Starting 64 worker threads.

"Last 10 lines of PHP_error_log" 

[05-May-2016 05:14:53 UTC] PHP Warning: fopen(C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.17/conf/httpd.conf): failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 307
[05-May-2016 05:14:53 UTC] PHP Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 308
[05-May-2016 05:14:53 UTC] PHP Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 309
[05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: fopen(../wampmanager.ini): failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\wamp\scripts\refresh.php on line 1205 [05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: fwrite() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\scripts\refresh.php on line 1206
[05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: fclose() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\scripts\refresh.php on line 1207 [05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: unlink(C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.17/bin/icudt54.dll): Permission denied in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 78
[05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: symlink(): Cannot create symlink, error code(1314) in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 81 [05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: unlink(C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.17/bin/icuin54.dll): Permission denied in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 78
[05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: symlink(): Cannot create symlink, error code(1314) in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 81 [05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: unlink(C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.17/bin/icuio54.dll): Permission denied in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 78
[05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: symlink(): Cannot create symlink, error code(1314) in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 81 [05-May-2016 05:14:54 UTC] PHP Warning: unlink(C:/wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.17/bin/icule54.dll): Permission denied in C:\wamp\scripts\wampserver.lib.php on line 78

System Info

Answer 1

did you have any missing DLLs while installing wampserver? I had the same problem and the solution was

1. close the wampserver tray (from task manager)
2. go Here and download the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio and install it.
3. now open Wamp as administrator

the problem should be gone by now (at least that was the solution for me)

Answer 2

Did you install WAMPServer 3 as an Administrator, using the "Run as Administrator" as instructed in the install instructions.

The installer must be run "as an administrator"

If you did not, uninstall WAMPServer and then reinstall it doing this:

Right click on the installer .exe and select "Run as Administrator"