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When i open my web browser and input localhost the XAMPP welcome page appear but when i click on PhpMyAdmin i get this error

Error
MySQL said: Documentation

#2003 - The server is not responding
Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed.

Please i need help very urgent because i have to work on a project. Thanks..

Something else going on there you aren't showing? What does your control panel log window say when you start mysql?

It says
ERROR: MySql service not started

If that's all it says then you have a bigger problem than mysql.

yeah I get the same mysql [database server] not reponding error. here is the dump from the xampp server processing window :

7:23:30 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel
7:23:30 PM [main] Windows Version: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
7:23:30 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 1.8.3
7:23:30 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.1 [ Compiled: May 7th 2013 ]
7:23:30 PM [main] You are not running with administrator rights! This will work for
7:23:30 PM [main] most application stuff but whenever you do something with services
7:23:30 PM [main] there will be a security dialogue or things will break! So think
7:23:30 PM [main] about running this application with administrator rights!
7:23:30 PM [main] XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\"
7:23:30 PM [main] Checking for prerequisites
7:23:31 PM [main] All prerequisites found
7:23:31 PM [main] Initializing Modules
7:23:31 PM [mysql] MySQL Service detected with wrong path
7:23:31 PM [mysql] Change XAMPP MySQL and Control Panel settings or
7:23:31 PM [mysql] Uninstall/disable the other service manually first
7:23:31 PM [mysql] Found Path: "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 6.0\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 6.0\my.ini" MySQL
7:23:31 PM [mysql] Expected Path: c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql
7:23:31 PM [main] Enabling autostart for module "Apache"
7:23:31 PM [main] Enabling autostart for module "MySQL"
7:23:31 PM [main] Enabling autostart for module "Tomcat"
7:23:31 PM [main] Starting Check-Timer
7:23:31 PM [main] Control Panel Ready
7:23:31 PM [Apache] Autostart aborted: Apache is already running
7:23:31 PM [mysql] Autostart active: starting...
7:23:31 PM [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL service...
7:23:32 PM [Tomcat] Autostart aborted: Tomcat is already running
7:24:06 PM [main] Executing "services.msc"
7:24:43 PM [mysql] Attempting to start MySQL service..."

it never goes beyond saying "[mysql] Attempting to start MySQL service.." can someone please help me with this?

If I were to take a wild guess, I would say you installed mysql 6 in program files and it is still running. You need to stop that service and uninstall that program since you are using XAMPP.

No quitre the contrary to what you say : "I would say you installed mysql 6 in program files and it is still running" the only "mysql 6" which I have ever tried to install was Workbench 6 and I could never get that running!! I went out of my way to disinstall every instance of mysql yesterday for it to not interfere with activating in xampp. It still however does not come on for me.

Check your program files directory.

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7:23:31 PM [mysql] Found Path: "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 6.0\bin\mysqld"

ok you are right about finding MYSQL in Program Files. But I never found mysql server 6 but mysql servers 5.1 and 5.5 which I remember installing recently. When I try to delete the MYSQL folder it doesn't let me, saying that a file or a folder it is in is busy with something else! I closed down xampp but still got this mesg. what do I do now?

Unregister the mysql windows dervice

just how do I mgo about doing that? Can you quickly explain?