Synopsis: Cannot open service manager: Access is denied. State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback State-Changed-By: marc State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 20 21:11:54 PST 1998 State-Changed-Why: I'm afraid I don't understand exactly what you did, in what order, and what result you got from each step.
Did "apache -i" work? What happened when you tried it? After that, did you have an Apache entry in the services control panel? If so, what happens when you try starting it? What happens if you try running Apache from the command line (ie. no arguments)? It should just start up and remain control of the shell while starting to serve requests.
