WAMP - PHP loads too many Extensions

Question

i am using WAMP 2.1 with
Apache Version : 2.2.17
PHP Version : 5.3.3
MySQL Version : 5.5.8

By default WAMP loads these extensions
Core, bcmath, calendar, com_dotnet, ctype, date, ereg, filter, tp, hash, iconv, json, mcrypt, session, odbc, pcre, Reflection, standard, SPL, mysqlnd, tokenizer, zip, zlib, libxml, dom, PDO, Phar, SimpleXML, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, apache2handler, gd, mbstring, mysql, mysqli, mhash

i really dont need all these ! so i opened PHP.INI and put a ; before those lines which i dont want, so now it looks like ;extension=php_zip.dll but WAMP still shows ZIP extensions as loaded !
what is wrong ?
i restarted WAMP but with no effect !

Answer 1

To be able to change extension loading settings, you MUST run WampServer as administrator. (Right Click WampServer shortcut -> Run As Administrator). This should work now.

Click the Wamp icon in the system tray, then click PHP > PHP Extensions and try checking/unchecking the items there. This should work. <-- Checking/unchecking these items is the same as editing php.ini