In the XAMPP Control Panel Window, you would see a list of services that are currently running i.e Apache, MySQL etc. Next to the service name, there would be a Stop button.

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I think it would be very useful to be able to configure a default database connection. This way, when the service starts it will automatically connect to a previously configured database. This would ...

That's why the "Connect to predefined Network" setting exists. Each service stack gets deployed to it's own network to avoid name conflicts as mentioned above. It is save to enable it if you are sure, ...