I tried the solution posted here, but it does not work (possibly due to Windows and MariaDB). I decided to make a โquick and dirtyโ fix.
I went to my xampp folder, then / phpmyadmin / libraries / dbi /
Open DBIMysql.class.php - find
if (! $server)
should be around line 138, insert before if statement
$user = "your phpmyadmin username"; $password = "your phpmyadmin password";
Save the file and use the control to restart MySQL (alias MariaDB). It basically just overwrites the user variables and password - it seems that the new MariaDB has a problem getting the password and username in this class. After I did this, no more errors occurred.
But, as I said, be careful because this is a very dirty decision;)
Hope this helps :)
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