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Hello - I have a Windows 64 bit system; I installed, de-installed and re-installed XAMPP several times, but always the same results:

MySQL - running from control panel
MYSQL - shows as DEACTIVATED in Status
PhpMyAdmin shows the notorious error message

I have made several changes, as suggested here and there in the forums, all without visible effect - and now I am about to lose my wits.

Bullguard is running; XAMPP is installed directly on c

Please help -- and answers in German are also welcome. -- Wolfgang

Hello Wolfgang.

Just so we don't waist our time by duplicating what you have already tried, kindly detail what these 'several changes' are that you have made to rectify this 2002 error.
Thanks.

Hello -
first of all thank you for reading my post. I feel a bit stupid as it worked this morning; guess I should have booted instead of restarted. Maybe I also should have closed the browser session session instead of simply emptying the cache.

Here is what I ended up with. Maybe it will be useful for some other person running into the same problem.
I followed this instruction, found elsewhere in this forum:

Download the ZIP or 7zip version of XAMPP.
Extract (drag) the xampp folder to the C:\ drive or the root of any drive or partition like D:\, E:\, etc.
Run the C:\xampp\setup_xampp.bat file (this sets the correct paths for you).
Open the XAMPP Control Panel version 3 (xampp-control-3-beta.exe) found in the xampp folder and start Apache and MySQL (do not tick any service module boxes)
When both Apache and MySQL are running type http://localhost/ select your language and exercise all the demos in the left menu frame.

In config.inc.php I added the lines:
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser'] = 'pma';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass'] = '';

I also might have added the line; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';

Now I look forward to use XAMPP -- thanks -- Wolfgang

Thanks Wolfgang for your feedback and I am pleased you have it working now.

I will close this topic and mark it solved.

Please feel free to start a new topic if you have any more issues with XAMPP.

Best wishes.