It’s not much of a stretch to say that it is a little uncommon to be using a Windows machine to do your local Adobe Experience Manager development—I wouldn’t tell you not to do so either. It just seems like AEM development is done on a Mac easier. So I was a little surprised to find an article recently that was written by Scott Ross of 4Point, indicating how to solve a conflict with your services between AEM and Windows. If you are developing on a Windows machine then this might be helpful for you to know.