“Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed” with phpMyAdmin in XAMPP

Question

I have just installed XAMPP on my Windows XP machine, and I get an error saying:

Connection for controluser as defined in your configuration failed.

Answer 1

"For me to make it work again I just deleted the files

ib_logfile0 and

ib_logfile1 .

from :

/Applications/MAMP/db/mysql56/ib_logfile0 "

On XAMPP its Xampp/xamppfiles/var/mysql

Got this from PHP Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): Connection refused