Newbie: even installation is hard

Hello,

As a newbie in Drupal, but with a lot of experience in Joomla, I wanted to test Drupal on my PC; I don't know anything from Linux/unix but i have some PHP en Mysql skills;

I downloaded the file. and after discovering it was in .tar I finally managed to pack it out.
I copied the files to a directory drupal on my easyPHP webserver (local on my pc) and went hopefully via firefox towards the drupal dir: WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT!

There were immidiatly a lot of warnings... But I could however fill in the database credentials. Unfortunately, the install script doesn't create the database itself...
I click on proceed and again a lot of errors:
Notice: Undefined index: pass in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\drupal\install.php on line 123

Notice: Undefined index: pass in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\drupal\includes\install.mysql.inc on line 32

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\drupal\install.php:123) in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\drupal\includes\install.inc on line 573

I check the website for the manual: I should change the conf.php file in the includes dir: guess what? It wasn't there....

So now I am stuck. It's a pity, I've seen a drupal site, and I believe in it, but my preassumptions that you need to know Linux and be a command line freak is confirmed;

I hope someone can give me some advice about how to install Drupal on my windows PC.

Thanks a lot in advance.