problems following CI tutorial - pls help

[eluser]Thoer[/eluser]
It's definietly not xampp and the default constructor function should work in php5 and php4 as well. you forgot to mention whether you see an empty page or not, and if so, you should take a look at the error handling defined in your index.php
At first glance

Code:

$this->load->view('home_view.html');

seems to be invalid as it should be a php file and you don't want to put ".html" when calling your view file.