XAMPP Component Status Check failure [3].

[chicagotech]

Situation: When running XAMPP Control 1.7.4 [PHP: 5.3.5] on 64-bit Windows 7 Professional, you may receive this message:

XAMPP Component Status Check failure [3].

Current directory: E:\xampp

Run this program only from your XAMPP root directory.

Resolution: 1. Create and opy files under c:\xampp to c:\xampp\xampp.

2. change the Install_Dir value under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE to point to C:\xampp. According to the thread, the error message is due to a bug where the Install_Dir is checked against a hard-coded path on C:\. That may or may not be the case, but the suggested work-around seems to be effective.

Here’s a registry merge for Windows 7 64-bit that will make the change for you.

view sourceprint?1 Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

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3 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\xampp]

4 "Install_Dir"="C:\\xampp"
Now xampp-control.exe launches without the error, and I haven’t noticed anything (PHP, MySQL, etc.) not working because of the bogus path.