XAMPP: Couldn't start Apache (Windows 10)

Question

I\'m using XAMPP, and I can start Apache, but, MySQL (phpMyAdmin) start!

When I start, I get this error;

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Answer 1

This advice was great. I had the same problem, but my solution was different, because I was so stupid, that I have renamed directory where XAMPP was located and since I had installed a lot of another programs I couldn't rename it back.

In my case there was original directory C:\Programs\Xampp and renamed it to C:\PROGRAMS_\Xampp and that was the mistake.

The solution was to find all references on C:\Programs and rename them C:\PROGRAMS_ in the XAMPP directory, because for some reason during the installation it writes absolute paths, not relative. Of course, there are some references in the registry too.