Problem running Apache 2.2 with XAMPP

Hi,

Today i was installing XAMPP on windows 7 desktop. Well, the installation gone perfectly well. Finally, i was able to access XAMPP control panel, but, the moment i started apache 2.2, it failed. Then i installed it as a service and then started, but it was still in vain.

Later on, i changed C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf file contents as below

Listen 80

to

Listen 81

and then restarted the service, finally it worked.

The reason why i changed the port is because i later on found that skype also listens to the same port which was a default port for Apache 2.2