While preparing my demo applications for the PHP conference tomorrow, Sandy showed me VertrigoServ. It's a PHP distribution for windows with Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin. I used to use NuSphere, but that one comes without MySQL.

VertrigoServ seems ideal for demo setups.
It's easy too. You just need to start one program and it will start Apache and MySQL for you. The default configuration runs out of the box. (The only change I made to the default config was to disable register_globals in php.ini, as this is a possible security risk).

VertrigoServ is a bit lacking in documentation. It took me a while to figure out the default MySQL root password (requires configfile digging, and in case you're looking for it too, it's 'qwerty'), but once I got past that, the ATK demo ran like a charm.

I've got some 4.5 hours of sleep left before I have to wake up to depart for the conference. If I find some time during the conference, and a wifi connection, I will try to update the blog with info from the conference.