hi, I've been using the xampp suite for years, never had any problems. I had some local sites that I was developing, all of a sudden the server stopped responding, I did the backup recovery procedure, and ran as administrator. if it helps, it was after i inserted a plugin downloaded from the internet (free), and i clicked activate, and still it gave me the error "no plugin found" because inside the zip there was another zip.
now i restore the back up, but on localhost/mysite . ask me the wordpress installation , when i try to do again, tell me that the database it's already exist ... how i can solve the problem??