title: Windows: #1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) phpmyadmin
body: <p>Yes, I know there are already a billion threads opened for this issue but so far, none of the solutions has worked for me. I'm having so much trouble trying to get phpmyadmin to work. My error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#1045 - Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES) 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried:  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>changing the password on <code>config.inc.php</code> in wamp to 'root'</li>
  <li>switching to <code>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie';</code> instead of <code>'config'</code></li>
  <li>mysql command line to change the password <code>mysqladmin -u root password root</code></li>
  <li>it is running on <code>localhost:8080/phpmyadmin</code> but the config has it as <code>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = '127.0.0.1';</code>, but switching to <code>127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin</code> only gives me a "Not found" error, switching config to <code>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost:8080';</code> also throws an error</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The MySQL portion on wamp isn't lighting up, and when I tried starting the service I'm getting the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    Windows could not start the Mysql service on Local Computer.
      Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My MySQL is version 5.6.17. Please help! I have a project due soon and this is giving me so much grief.</p>