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I have installed XAMPP for WINDOWS XP with no problems.
Then I used the XAMPP Control Panel Application with the Modules boxes ticked
and click Start for Apache and MySql and got Running on a green background
for both.
When I click Admin for both the Browser (Window IE) is invoked but I get
IE cannot display the webpage

When I use http://localhost or http//127.0.0.1 I also get IE cannot display the webpage

I tried in the Shell/Dos box
\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqladmin.exe -u root -psecret
and
edited xampp\phpmyadminzconfig.inc.php with
......user'] = 'root';
.......pasword'] = 'secret';
.......auth_type']='config';

Stiil I did not get connecting on the IE browser. I still get
IE cannot display the webpage

Please help
So long
Glyn