XAMPP slow on Vista

Just installed XAMPP lite on my Vista machine. The installation went smooth but the web server feels somehow slow. There is often a delay of about 1-2 seconds without any CPU load when I open a web page. I encountered this problem before on other Vista machines but never found a solution for it. Now I found a solution:

• Open notepad.exe as administrator (right-click Notepad icon -> run as administrator)
• Click on File -> Open
• Change the selection Text files (*.txt) to All files (*.*)
• Open the file C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts
• Change the line

  ::1             localhost

  to

  #::1             localhost

• Save and close notepad

That’s it.