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I've just upgraded to XAMPP Version 1.4.12. It's physically installed at
C:\apachefriends\xampp on my machine, so htdocs is at C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs, naturally.

I've got various folders installed under htdocs and previously if I navigated to (for example) http://localhost/freemed it would start freemed/index.php for me; if I navigated to http://localhost/MySite it would open MySite/index.html and so forth.

Now it just gives me a 404 error. If I navigate to http://localhost/ it takes me to http://localhost/xampp/splash.php.

How do I get my other local sites back?

Try making a folder in C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs, and putting everything in C:\apachefriends\xampp\htdocs in it except for your folders. Then make an index. Its what I did.

Try renaming the index.html in "htdocs" as "xampp.html" - then your xampp setup won't startup anymore whenever someone points to your site.

As for the 404 errors, are you having any ".htaccess" files placed anywhere around in htdocs, for access control?