title: How to avoid 403 error for image URLs in (local) Wordpress via XAMPP on Windows?
body: <p>Windows XP SP3 - Xampp 1.8.1 - PHP 5.4.7 - WordPress 3.5.1 - (all drives use NTFS)</p>
  
  <p>I think my problem is similar to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9173880/403-forbidden-permission-to-access-images">this one</a> but these solutions seem only suitable for Unix-like OSs.</p>
  
  <p>I'm running Wordpress via XAMPP on Windows XP (SP3) and some (<strong>but not all</strong>) images are not displayed because I seem not to have file permissions to access them. When drilling down (via Chrome Developer) to the URL in a new tab, I get a 403 error.</p>
  
  <p>Is changing file permissions the way to go for me too and if so, how do I do that on Windows?</p>