What exactly indicates that it is de-activated?
I know it is possible to stop-start Apache and stop-start MySQL and it is possible to switch between PHP versions. But De-activate!
Most of the control programs are in this folder under Xampp
With programs you double click to start, such as
But I suspect it is a setting in a config file.
Check
- \\Apache\xampp\php\php.ini
There are a couple more ini files I can't quite remember where