New WP latest version not updating

[RJScout]

Hello...

When I click update to latest WP version, a number of repeated times..I get the following

Downloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/wordpress-4.4-new-bundled.zip…
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\rjramwp\wp-includes\class-http.php on line 1610

Was wondering if anyone can please assist me..
Why is this not updating?

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Another issue I dont know how to resolve without a little guidance
is the following....
I pasted this from the XAMPP dashboard window on my computer...
I'm not sure if this critical or not or it could be why the WP update version is not
updating.. not really sure?
can you help out..
appreciate it much...

MySQL Service detected with wrong path
3:54:22 PM [mysql] Change XAMPP MySQL and Control Panel settings or
3:54:22 PM [mysql] Uninstall/disable the other service manually first
3:54:22 PM [mysql] Found Path: C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld --defaults-file=C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql
3:54:22 PM [mysql] Expected Path: c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysq

How do you fix this? or is it not critical to resolve..????
Thanks in advance

Happy Holidays

[Nobbie]

1) WordPress: http://bfy.tw/3IKX

2) MySQL Service: Edit the "Windows Services" from the Windows Setup, look for "MySQL" Service and correct the value of Path according to the message (there is only .exe missing at the end of mysqld.exe).

[RJScout]

thanks for the advise..\, however I'm still a little lost.... exactly "where is the windows services" what is from the windows set-up... ???

thank you

[RJScout]

I cant understand this fatal error stuff.. yesterday it was line 1610...
today its

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\rjramwp\wp-admin\includes\class-wp-filesystem-direct.php on line 67

it appears every time I try to update to WP the fatal error is on different lines..
I also took a look at all those same issues on WordPress dot org site.. from the link you sent
my goodness some of those threads are from 7 years ago.. none of them are recent
and WORD PRESS itself has evolved significantly from the time those issues appeared...

Another issue I have..... how in the world do you update XAMPP...
what does one have to do to get current with XAMPP ...?
upload the newest version and delete the old version...???? could this be the way to go?

I have a XAMPP control panel version 3.2.1 compiled on may 7th 2013

Today, XAMPP is at version XAMPP 5.6.8
IS there an easy way to ugrade ?

[Nobbie]

it appears every time I try to update to WP the fatal error is on different lines..

Why not - the line number is not important, important is THE MESSAGE. It says, that 30 seconds have been reached. And this has always the same solution, increase the max execution time for PHP scripts in php.ini, as suggested in many posts.

IS there an easy way to ugrade ?

No. There is no upgrade procedure for Xampp.