title: MySQL queries extremely slow in fresh XAMPP installation
body: <p>I just reinstalled Windows 7 and I am trying to get my development environment up and running again.  XAMPP installed ok, and my application is in htdocs and all databases have imported fine.  I can view them in phpMyAdmin and everything looks intact.</p>
  
  <p>When trying to run the application, queries are so slow that most pages timeout before all the queries can complete.</p>
  
  <p>For example, pages this computer could generate in 3 seconds before, now go up to 30 seconds and the page times out.</p>
  
  <p>This is an XAMPP installation 1.7.7, but I have tried rolling back to their older versions and got the same result.</p>
  
  <p>There is nothing in the log files, as it's not actually erroring out, it's just performing the queries very slowly.</p>
  
  <p>Even navigating the databases via phpMyAdmin takes about 3-10 seconds to load pages whereas it has previously been instant.  So this eliminates my application (which also hasn't changed since when it was working very quickly before).</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas what could be causing this big slowdown in a fresh xampp install?  Was there something in httpd.conf, php.ini or my.ini I might have setup prevously that got wiped by the fresh install and might now cause the database access to be slow?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>