New database user and db fails

[finelock]

Good afternoon team, I have a problem where I have created a database, and a user with passwd, the only problem is when I try to connect to it
it fails, :-
Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user 'finder'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in D:\xampp\htdocs\finder\install\index.php on line 48
Error: Unable to connect to mysql server.

I have mad sure all is upper case, have selected all priv's

If I put the script on a cpanel server everything works, but not on xampp, now I am fully aware most of you uses root and no password
but I dont want to...

Any pointers would be grateful, seems a shame to scrap xampp and stay with a real server... it must be something silly I am doing

All the best from Alan

[finelock]

Fixed...

[Altrea]

What was the issue and how did you fix this?