Chad <innocentkiller <at> gmail.com> writes:
I have no idea if there's a nice Windows package friendly enough for the low-to-medium-tier NT admins (those who watch progress bars for a living), but that would be nice. They're not going to get away from the command line and text configuration files, though.
XAMPP. It takes a whopping 5 minutes to download and install. Gives you Apache/mySQL/PHP all ready to go at C:\xampp. It really cannot get any easier than this. If you can't install this, I wouldn't even trust you to run my WordPress.
There is also a single-file installer for MediaWiki + AMP stack ( http://bitnami.org/stack/mediawiki ) for people who really can't do anything more difficult than clicking "OK" buttons.