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Note Submitter: timur at sakayev dot net ---- I wasn't able to find any explanation on this behavior, so i'm posting results of my trial-and-error work. Setup: Apache2, PHP5, Mysql on Windows XP Pro. Symptoms: extensions do not get loaded. I tried to follow the manual, but no matter what changes i made to C:\windows\php.ini, none of them would be seen in phpinfo() - the extension directory would still refer to C:\php5 (nonexistent in my case, since i am using C:\php), despite the fact that phpinfo was referring to C:\windows loocation for php.ini Solution: Moved php.ini from C:\windows to C:\php and it got loaded. I hope this helps others.