Vista / Acquia service start problems - work around

There does seem to be a problem starting apache and mysql services from the Acquia panel on Vista machines - seems to happen after the first reboot. See node here for more detail: http://acquia.com/node/361057 . But I did what was recommended - Start, Accessories, Command Prompt, services.msc to bring up the service panel, then start ad_apache and ad_mysql. Worked fine.