XAMPP and Acquia Dev Desktop I installed XAMPP on my local machine to use it for Drupal. But all the navigation between all the localhost websites are really slow, no matter if it's a brand new vanilla Drupal website or if it's a commerce website, drupal 7 and/or drupal 8.

I tried everything from apache config to mysql config to windows config.

I decided to try to either re-install XAMPP or install Acquia Dev Desktop instead.

2 questions:
 if i want to re-install XAMPP, do i need to uninstall it first or will it reinstall over it just fine?
 if i want to install Acquia DEV Desktop, do i need to un-install XAMPP first?

Thanks...
if i want to install Acquia DEV Desktop, do i need to un-install XAMPP first?


No, you can run them both at the same time by configuring different ports in Acquia Dev Desktop. Acquia Dev Desktop will also create its own hostname, so you'll access it differently. Eg, http://othersite:8080