XAMPP fails starting of MySQL server

If you have a xampp installation in parallel to a MySQL Server installation, xampp recognizes the installed service of the server installation and promts you with an invalid path message.

Solve by:

• Go to xampp control panel
• Select "Config"
• Select "Service and Ports"
• Select the "MySQL"-Tab
• Change the Servide Name to something like "mysqlx"

 So xamp serches for a service named "mysqlx" and has no more interest on the server-installed "mysql" service.