Local xampp WP gets stuck updating a plugin or importing a file

I’m getting desperate I can’t seem to find the problem that makes WP stuck loading forever whenever I try to upload a 50kB xml with both “wp all import” and “WordPress Importer”.
Giving “File upload rejected by server”.
Or in wp importer getting stuck loading.

I have the 4.7.4 WordPress running localhost in 8080 with xampp and I was thinking this was an Isolated incident so I tried to see what disabling all plugins then updating the Akismet Anti-Spam Default one would do.
To my surprise it didn’t update… It would be forever loading.
Spitting out "the update has failed: lost connection or server is busy. Please try later.".

I’ve checked phpinfo() for the common culprits:

upload_max_filesize=128M ;;NOPE 
post_max_size=25M ;;NOPE 
memory_limit=128M ;;NOPE

Then I disabled all the plugins, same result…

I’ve added these to wp-config.php:

define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
define( 'WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true ); 
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct'); 

No errors or warnings!
Not even a log file in WP-root.

So I thought it might be permissions, I’m on windows and this is a pain in the ass… I think I gave all permissions to wp-root and child directories (but I’m not 100% sure so if there is a foolproof way to do this please show me).

WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?

I ran out of ideas and reinstalled WP… Same crap. Any help would be greatly appreciated