There's a bug, I believe with XAMPP where from XAMPP CP you click 'admin' under MySQL, when WinMySQLadmin comes up, the icon in the right (traffic light) is always red, and there's no option to start the service anymore... at the moment there's a "Stop the Service" option but it's unselectable. Are there other ready-setup environment just like XAMPP that has phpMyAdmin included, too? I know this has nothing to do with PHP individually but any help will be appreciated! Cheers!