Originally Said By: markjurisic334977
just a small postscript to the above. when l stop the services the "red light" does come on. When l start the wamp server the red light disappears however it says that the server is offline and the "put online" option returns an error "Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception} could not perform service action: The service has not been started" 
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Put Online refers to putting the programme on the internet, which you don't want. All you want to do with it, is use it on your local drive!
