OK... I sort of got the ball rolling on my own.
I'd like to share what I found during this WAMP introduction- and what I'm finding out- for the other newbies on here like myself. The biggest reason I'm posting this- despite seeing similar posts- is because I want to explain from a Front End Developers' Point of View. I've been around backend Dev for probably 12 years or more, but it doesn't mean I'm worth a d@mn at it.
The
"#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) " ERROR was fixed- for me- by going to this site:
http://downloads.jlbn.net/ResetMysql.html and downloading a little zipped file called
"ResetMysql".
The Text Link for this
ResetMysql file is located toward the bottom of the page and easy to miss beacuse of all the intrusive "Adds by Google". This is an open source site, but they will appreciate any donations.
For the record, I donated.
One you download the zipped file, look inside and read the "Read Me First" txt file. Basically, you're going shut down WAMP in your service tray, then you're going to locate several specific files on your C Drive within the WAMP folder, save copies of them (for a "
just in case"), and finally replace these located files with the ones included in the zipped file.
When I restarted WAMP, I was finally able to see
phpMyAdmin!
However, I have 2 new "alerts" on my phpMyAdmin that will now consume my waking thoughts. They are as follows (with the reasons of consuming thoughts):
The additional features for working with linked tables have been deactivated. To find out why click here.
Great. I have no idea why features are going to have to be disabled when I finally got the silly thing working... I followed the "To find out why click here" link and didn't understand any of it.

Will look in to this later.
The second and final alert is as follows:
Your configuration file contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really should fix this security hole by setting a password for user '.root'.
Now, this one annoys me. AfterI originally installed WAMP, I used the
MySQL Console to create a password (
for you newbies, it's very similar to the Windows' Command Prompt- or DOS prompt). And, according to the MySQL Console, the password took. However, you can see by following this thread from the beginning, even though I thought I created a password, I couldn't access phpMyAdmin.
So does this mean I will have more Password issues with MySQL and phpMyAdmin if I create another? Stay tuned to this thread to see if our hero is dashed to bits on the rocks below.
