mickyholmes on "XAMPP change permalinks causes Error 500"

...here's the contents of .htaccess if that helps:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /xampp/yak-shak-mickyholmes/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /xampp/yak-shak-mickyholmes/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress