Blank screen appearing after i click install WordPress button

Hi i am new to WordPress and have a blank screen appearing after i click install WordPress button in the web browser in wp-admin/install.php.

i have these components and versions installed:

* wordpress-2.5
* php-5.2.5-win32
* window xp professional
* mySQL 5
* Apache 2.2 http server

The word press instructions require the
https://localhost/wp/wp-admin/install.php
page to be loaded though a web browser that works fine, after putting the blog name in it and email address and checking the
“Allow my blog to appear in search engines like Google and Technorati” then clicking the
“Install WordPress” button the system hangs for a while about 5 minutes and then it redirects the browser to

“https://localhost/wp/wp-admin/install.php?step=2 page appears with only a header on it.”

Word press must almost have things right since it corrects the tables in the db but almost its not enough

if i go to https://localhost/wp/wp-login.php then this page rendered but the pwd is shown at the end of the previous process but is not displayed. so i click https://localhost/wp/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword so i enter my email and click “get new pwd” the system hangs again.

Who knows about this issue and how to i resolve it?

Regards
Nick