Installing Drupal

I have recently gone through the experience of trying to install Acquia Drupal 7 using Microsoft's Web Platform Installer V4.0 using a MS-SQL Server 2012 database. Suffice it to say that the experience was somewhat unpleasant and, as yet, unsuccessful.

For the benefit of the many who will undoubtedly be lead down this track via Microsoft's WPI V4.0 I wanted to share my experiences, point out some of the problems and their solutions and seek some answers to the problems that I am still having.

Let's start at the beginning.

I have a fairly standard Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64 bit) PC. I had already installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 web edition, PHP v6.4.8 and IIS7 with MS-SQL 2012 which had been configured and tested to ensure that PHP was working perfectly. Following the recommendation found on Drupal's main website I attempted to install Drupal 7 using the Windows Platform Installer v4.0.

All went well until I noticed that WPI wanted to install PHP version 5.3.13 (this was listed as a "dependency") even though v6.4.8 was already installed. Reluctantly I agreed and WPI then promptly then trashed my carefully configured v6.4.8 installation and replaced it with the much older preferred version. (Source of Angst #1).

If I were to install wordpress I would need to change the wp-config-sample.php file containing database name and user password then name it wp-config.php but what is the equivalent in drupal?

Ok well its not needed because all that is configured in install.php

i was browsing on my iPod touch and when going to one of the page it redirect me to a porn site.. the funny thing is it sometime redirect and other time it goes fine. its not the iPod touch because i tested on my brother Samsung tab and it does the same thing i have no clue where to start!! can someone guild me to how to fix this issue. i check forums and i check .htass and php.setting but i don't know what im looking for..

Help. I'm new to Drupal.

I am working on a hosted domain address.

I followed the Quick install with FTP (http://drupal.org/node/1011872) but I am stuck after step 3.
1) Unzipped and uploaded all the downloaded files inside /httpdocs/
2) Created a new database and user inside hosting provider's control panel
3) Changed /sites/default directory to be writable and renamed the default.settings.php to just setting.php

hi i have tried to copy the url and paste the module and install it that way and it comes up but i cant tick any boxes and looks like this below , how can i uninstall and install modules so they work? thanks

COMMERCE
ENABLED NAME VERSION DESCRIPTION OPERATIONS

Cart
7.x-1.3 Implements the shopping cart system and add to cart features.
Requires: Commerce (disabled), System (enabled), Entity (missing), Rules (missing), Checkout (disabled), Commerce UI (disabled), Order (disabled), Customer (disabled), Addressfield (missing), Line Item (disabled), Price (disabled), Product (disabled), Product Pricing (disabled), Product Reference (disabled), Options (enabled), Field (enabled), Field SQL storage (enabled), Rules_admin (missing), Views (missing)

Checkout
7.x-1.3 Enable checkout as a multi-step form with customizable checkout pages.
Requires: Commerce (disabled), System (enabled), Entity (missing), Rules (missing), Commerce UI (disabled), Order (disabled), Customer (disabled), Addressfield (missing), Line Item (disabled), Price (disabled)
Required by: Cart (disabled)

Commerce
7.x-1.3 Defines features and functions common to the Commerce modules. Must be enabled to uninstall other Commerce modules.
Requires: System (enabled), Entity (missing), Rules (missing)

Hi guys, I am very new to Drupal so maybe this is an equally very dumb question, I do not know. Anyway, I have searched and searched all over the site for any previous Discussion but could not find answers to the following:

1. I do not know if it is allowed in the first place, as I have only just started working with Drupal and thus the Themes, but is it possible to remove/change the blue-and-white big Title 'Corporateclean' that appears on each page?