cannot install wordpress in local

Hi guys. Will be brief.
Trying to run wordpress in local since 2 days.
Red tons of posts.
Made tons of tries.
Getting frustrated.
Here is the issue:
I have win XP, I followed the instructions below:
Installing WordPress on Your Windows Desktop
1.Download and install XAMPP.
2.This installs by default into C:/xampplite or C:\xampp.
3.Start XAMPP from c:\xampplite or c:\xampp.
4.You may need to restart your computer to allow apache services to start.
5.In your browser, go to https://localhost/xampp.
6.In the left column under Tools, click phpMyAdmin.
7.Login is admin.
8.In Create new database enter wordpress.
9.In the next box, select utf8 unicode ci.
10.Click Create button.
11.Unzip your WordPress download into the htdocs directory – c:\xampp\htdocs\<yourwebsite>.
12.From the <yourwebsite> folder, open wp-config.php in a text editor.
13.The connection details you need are as follows:
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this
14.Save as wp-config.php.
15.Install by going to https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php

when I try the point 15 I get:
// ** MySQL settings ** // define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘super’); // The name of the database define(‘DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this
Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-admin\includes\file.php on line 11

thank you for your time