How to change maximum viewable tables from 250 to anything in PhpMyadmin?

Question

I am trying to increase my list of tables to 5000 in phpmyadmin

The documentation says this:

 $cfg['MaxNavigationItems']
 Type:  integer
 Default value: 250

I have tried to set it in the back end to no avail under

settings>navigation panel>Maximum items in branch

How can I do this, I have tons of table on multi site that I often need to delete and don't want to have to keep clicking next and next after only 250 entries...

Answer 1

Thank you to juergen d , for other beginners, add the code

 $cfg['MaxTableList'] = 5000; 

to the file config.inc.php, it's not in there to be changed, so can't find it , it needs to be ADDED to the file.

File is located at

C:\xampp\php 

in my case.

PS. There is a box in Phpmyadmin to change the value, but it doesn't work, even after restart, not sure why, but the solutions above works.