apache 2.2 mod rewrite/htaccess on windows 7

[Sam Sherlock <sam.sherlock@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have set up php, mysql and apache 2.2

but I can't seem to get mod_rewrites to work

things that worked fine on xp and also linux just don't work on windows 7
wordpress and cakephp rewrites


but have also tried a simple test as follows

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule bob.html alice.html

I have a single html file named alice.html abd an index.html file which links to 
bob.html and alice.html

only the alice.html link works the other is error 404

I get this in access log for bob
127.0.0.1 - - [11/Nov/2010:16:33:41 +0000] "GET /mtest/bob.html HTTP/1.1" 404 212

and in error log

[Thu Nov 11 16:29:42 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/www/htdocs/mtest/bob.html, referer: http://ss33/mtest/

would greatly appreciate any ideas to resolve this

thx - S