i have installed wamp on my computer and when i access phpmyadmin i get the following error #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) i already have xampp installed on my computer, i want to learn smarty templates so i am using wamp for the sake of learning smarty, i do not want to install smarty on xampp as it is already configured with other settings so i would like to use wamp i am using windows xp service pack 2 i have chaned the port to 81 in the httpd.conf configuration file of wamp and changed server name to localhost:81 so i access wamp as http://localhost:81 this works fine, from this page when i click on phpmyadmin link i get the error #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) i have followed the steps from the following links http://www.wampserver.com/phorum/read.php?2,30300 http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=58057 i have tried stopping all services and restarted wamp service however i am not able to access phpmyadmin but i am able to access wamp as http://localhost:81 and any files i create in the wamp/www folder please advice. thanks