hi 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! > there are a lot, but i think wamp server could be a good solution is you are newone in PHP http://www.wampserver.com/en/ regards -- Carlos Eduardo Sotelo Pinto (KrLoS) GNU Linux User Registered #379182 http://csotelop.blogsome.com