Treat this environment as a sandbox for local coding only. Never open port 80 on your router to expose this installation to the internet.
Another old DLL conflict or missing environment variable. Fix: Edit C:\xampp\apache\bin\envvars.bat and add: xampp-win32-1.8.2-6-vc9-installer.exe
The installer will display a warning: "Important! Because XAMPP is designed for development only...". Read it carefully. It's not exaggerating. Click "OK". Treat this environment as a sandbox for local coding only