PHPMyAdmin doesn't connect after root password change
I installed Xampp (for Windows). I was happily using it with its all features. Then I wanted to change MySql password. I set a randomly generated password (rCZ4Xnz78zbLY2Vh). Then PHPMyAdmin stopped logging in. It started to give the following error message, and it is the same ever since: Error MySQL said: Cannot connect: invalid settings. phpMyAdmin tried to connect to the MySQL server, and the server rejected the connection. You should check the host, username and password in your configuration and make sure that they correspond to the information given by the administrator of the MySQL