Install and configure MySQL 4.1 and PHPMyAdmin

Download MySQL 4.1 here (Windows Essentials) and the latest PHPMyadmin zip package here

Download MySQL 4.1 (Windows Essentials)

run the setup wizard and chose Server Machine

Check Transactional Database Only for web server

InnoDB setting, leave it as default

Check Online Transaction Processing for web server

Check Standard Character Set for default setting

Chose a name for your mysql instance

Enter the password for root, you can also enable root access from remote machines

After the configuration wizard is done, go to the directory where MySQL 4.1 is installed, click on my.ini and click copy and paste for a backup copy of my.ini

Open my.ini in notepad and put old_passwords at the end of my.ini in order for phpmyadmin to use older password

Go to Administrative tools and click on Services

look for MySQL41 service and restart the service for the old_password to take effect

Setup PHPMyAdmin

That's it!