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Very strange things going on.<br />
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I had odd error message from Win 7 about terminating a program; I could only get out of it by &lt;ctrl&gt;&lt;alt&gt;&lt;del&gt;; Win 7 tried to start in safe mode.<br />
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XAMPP was gone; no longer installed.<br />
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I re-installed it (worked normally), started phpmyadmin &amp;&nbsp;created a database; no problem.<br />
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So ???
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Very strange things going on.

I had odd error message from Win 7 about terminating a program; I could only get out of it by <ctrl><alt><del>; Win 7 tried to start in safe mode.

XAMPP was gone; no longer installed.

I re-installed it (worked normally), started phpmyadmin & created a database; no problem.

So ???

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Most likely the earlier installation was corrupted due to some reason which caused unexpected Win 7 crash most likely due to MySQL but could be due to Apache as well.
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Most likely the earlier installation was corrupted due to some reason which caused unexpected Win 7 crash most likely due to MySQL but could be due to Apache as well.

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I installed XAMPP on my Win 7 computer. I had it previously installed, I uninstalled it because of issues with Joomla.<br />
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Now I'm trying to create a new database using phpMyadmin. See attached. How do I get it to let me create a database? It did before.<br />
<br />
Thanks<br />
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phpmyadmin-error2.jpg

I installed XAMPP on my Win 7 computer. I had it previously installed, I uninstalled it because of issues with Joomla.

Now I'm trying to create a new database using phpMyadmin. See attached. How do I get it to let me create a database? It did before.

Thanks

XAMPP

The Apache HTTP Server is a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards. Typically Apache is run on a Unix-like operating system, but it is available for a wide variety of operating systems, including Linux, Novell NetWare, Mac OS-X and Windows. Released under the Apache License, Apache is open-source software.

Apache Web Server

PHP is a widely-used server-side scripting language especially suited for web development, powering tens of millions of sites from Facebook to personal WordPress blogs. PHP is often paired with the MySQL relational database, but includes support for most other mainstream databases. By utilizing different Server APIs, PHP can work on many different web servers as a server-side scripting language.