But the changes were made to root config which were not changed in the PHPmyadmin and 'my.conf'. But all of a sudden hope the third party software had overridden the mysql password (don't know which project). Note :: AMPPS softculous installation were for ' (SSL) and not ' which worked for many project for almost a months.
Using AMPPS 3.8 32 bit | Win10 64bit Installed at E /ampps with PHP 7.x | MySQL 5.6 | Port 3306