The first error message I get on XAMPP Control Panel v3.2.1 is
quote][9:49:49 PM [main] Initializing Control Panel
9:49:49 PM [main] Windows Version: Windows 8 64-bit
9:49:49 PM [main] XAMPP Version: 5.6.3
9:49:49 PM [main] Control Panel Version: 3.2.1 [ Compiled: May 7th 2013 ]
9:49:49 PM [main] You are not running with administrator rights! This will work for
9:49:49 PM [main] most application stuff but whenever you do something with services
9:49:49 PM [main] there will be a security dialogue or things will break! So think
9:49:49 PM [main] about running this application with administrator rights![/quote]
Searching on these fora I found that I should
To solve that issue you have to restart your control panel with elevated administrator rights:
•rightclick your xampp-control.exe file
•choose "run as Administrator"
•if UAC is enabled you need to confirm that you really want to run as Administrator
•if you are not logged in as Administrator on your Windows system you need to type in the credentials of an administrator
Question: Where is xampp-control.exe? I cannot find it under c:\xampp folder