install.php simply will not run.

hello there. I’m extremely new at coding so this may be a simple thing to solve. I already edited config.php so everything is set up to go. I downloaded XAMPP and I tested it so my browser can run php code perfectly fine. However, when I want to run install.php the file will simply not run. It gives me this:

Warning: require_once(C:\xampp\htdocs/wp-load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\example\install.php on line 36

Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘C:\xampp\htdocs/wp-load.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\xampp\php\PEAR’) in C:\xampp\htdocs\example\install.php on line 36

Please help. I’ve tried editing the code and seeing if it will run, in which case, it gives me this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file in C:\xampp\htdocs\example\wp-install.php on line 254

I’ve also edited and re-edited config.php . Nothing seems to be working. I heard wordpress was a quick and easy installation, so I must be doing something wrong somewhere. Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks! 🙂