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I almost want to apologize for asking this. I really tried going through others posts first and it is just not working for me.

I've got Windows 8 PRO on my laptop. Just installed latest XAMPP & with latest control panel.
I launched control panel and started Apache & mySQL.
I edited my HOSTS file and now I have these lines:

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# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
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If I try to go to http://localhost/xampp/index.php OR http://localhost/xampp/xampp.php OR even http://localhost/xampp/ it cannot find any of those. Any help would be appreciated