Cannot use phpmyadmin in XAMPP
This appears to be a problem with a recent XAMPP release, my suggestion is to roll back to a previous XAMPP version.

That being said, the phpMyAdmin way of fixing it would be:


Comment out the pma__tracking line in config.inc.php. You may also need to comment out the pma__column_info line as well. This will allow you to start phpMyAdmin without the constant error messages.
Start phpMyAdmin normally
Run the included sql/create_tables.sql (making modifications if needed to match the XAMPP naming scheme)
Remove the comments in config.inc.php


Of course, I can't say whether that will also work for XAMPP.