I hope you are having more luck.
All I can say here is that Linux has got much easier* and that it is worth making some efforts for Open Source.
If it’s any consolation – my Windows PC has almost never run Apache etc. I used to have three Apache installations running at once, without any of them providing any functionality but it being impossible to uninstall or disable any of them.
* On my first attempt to install Linux almost ten years ago, it took 2 and a half full days to get a screen display before the rest of the installation could even proceed.
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