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

You may just have updated your Windows to Version 1903 (OS Build:18362.239) or have changed user passwords. Despite having eliminated all port conflicts, I still kept getting the messages described by the OP at the very start of this post.

In the end I cured it by upgrading to XAMPP to 7.3.7. (When forced to reinstall, you might as well upgrade at the same time!)

But the problem reoccurred when I again went to change the 'root' user password.

The console error messages were masking the fact that table mysql.user was corrupt.

Check file mysql_error.log. If you are seeing Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Index for table 'user' is corrupt; try to repair it, then have a look at this.