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As some have reported problems following guides like this, I made another step by step guide with lots of images.

Note: The images are taken on my german Windows 7. The locations of the buttons should be the same though.

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Setup the second IP
Next to your clock, you’ll find the network icon.
Click on it and open the Network Center.
Click on your active connection.
Click on Settings.
Scroll down and click on “Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4)” and click on Properties.
Note: If you have “Obtain IP Adress automatically” enabled, please watch the video in this post.
Click Extended Settings.
Click Add.
Enter the desired second IP, the submask should be added automatically. Click Add.
Make sure both IPs show up.
Configure IIS
Open the start menu, type powershell (or cmd if you don’t have the powershell) and press enter.
Do as it is shown on the image. (netsh, http, sho iplisten, add iplisten address=192.168.0.33, sho iplisten) Replace 192.168.0.33 with the IP you want to use with IIS.
Exit netsh, type nestat -an, this will show a long list, you should find YOUR-IP:80 within.
Installing and configuring XAMPP Get the latest version here
Remember in what folder you install it into.
Choose to run Apache as service, this will make it a little easier.
Note: You will most likely receive errors saying something like port 80 could not be bound to Apache, that is ok.
Open the folder you installed XAMPP into, switch to the conf folder.
Open the httpd.conf with a texteditor.
Search for “Listen 12.34.56.78:80″
Should be somewhere between line 50 and 60
Comment Listen 80 out and add Listen YOUR-SECOND-IP:80. Don’t forget to save.
Start / restart the Apache service, should the Svc checkbox no longer be checked, check it.
The service should be running after a few seconds, if not check the event log. If it says something like no IP could be bound, you forgot to save the second IP.
Open the PowerShell / cmd again and type netstat -an, your second IP should now be there too.
Testing it
Open a browser and enter your Apache-IP, XAMPP should show up.
In the navigation click on phpinfo(), you will see that PHP works corretly, as well as MySQL
As for MySQL, click on phpMyAdmin and you will see that everything works nicely.
Now, for IIS, enter your IP and you should be greeted by this screen (or whatever is the current default page on your IIS)