access denied for wordpress on a local xampp - php

Xampp is installed on my local windows machine.
I downloaded WordPress 4.5.2, unzipped it and put the contents in a folder called wptest which is in htdocs.
Xammp has php 7.0.6
The error I am getting is:
Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either
no index document or the directory is read-protected.
Error 403
If I type localhost into the browser I am taken to the localhost/dashboard
and if I type in localhost/wptest I get the access denied error.
When I first copied the wp files into the wptest folder I took the following steps:
Created a DB called wptest (same as the folder with the wp files in).
Renamed wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.
Inside wp-config.php I Replaced “database_name_here” with wptest,
Replaced “username_here” with “root” and Left the “password_here” blank.
I have tried several suggestions from forum posts regarding the access denied error but am getting nowhere.
As I have little experience with phpMyAdmin & XAMMP it may be a simple permissions setting I have missed.

Did you try with a older version on php?
I have the 5.6.3 version and it works fine.

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see there what link is set.
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