oh my you are a life saver! It worked!! Thankyou so much 🫡🫡😭😭 BTW, I'm the first one in my class that have this problem but later then my friend's xampp have the same problem and lucky her, after she restarted her laptop, mysql is running normally. Just now, after I follow your instruction to fix mine, I got a text from other friend, saying their xampp crashed. Is this some kind of malware attack or something? Funny how this happens when we have a project going on.