Install Laravel into XAMPP without using your %appdata%, this way you should be able to transfer things around without having to do much editing.

XAMPP + Laravel - Without AppData

-- For people who don't like writing to %appdata% allot.

Start by installing XAMPP and downloading Composer.
Install XAMPP and make sure you install the PHP plugin.
Install Composer, select the php.exe found in C:\xampp.

Make a new folder under your XAMPP directory, call it Composer.
Go to that folder.
Open a CMD inside that folder and enter `composer require "laravel/installer"`.

Now goto xampp_shell.bat and add `doskey laravel=C:\xampp\composer\vendor\bin\laravel $*` right under `:setenv`.
Save that file.

Run `doskey laravel=C:\xampp\composer\vendor\bin\laravel $*` in your current CMD.

Goto your htdocs folder move everything in it to a folder called xampp.
In your CMD navigate to C:\xampp\htdocs\ and run `laravel new`.

After you're done installing move the xampp folder you made before into C:\xampp\htdocs\public
Open `.gitignore` and add `/public/xampp` to it. Be sure to save.

Goto C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf and add the following...
```
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName localhost

  DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\public"
  ServerAdmin laravel.dev

  <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs">
        AllowOverride All
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>
```
Remember to save it!

Now just start XAMPP and everything should work... navigating to `localhost` should bring up the basic laravel page.
Going to localhost/xampp should give you the XAMPP panel, and going to localhost/phpmyadmin should give you your PHPMyAdmin stuff.

This may be useful in the future... (The link here is for me. :p)
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/