If you get the following error in a console from xampp-start.exe :
AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:443
AH00451: no listening sockets available, shutting down
AH00015: Unable to open logs
use the command netstat -ano and find the process-id of the process that is blocking 0.0.0.0:443.
Open the taskmanager and kill the process.
The vmware remote process is well known to listen at these address.