MySQL Workbench 5.2 CE, Windows 7, “Can't connect to MySQL Server on 127.0.0.1 (10061)”

Question

I\'ve seen this problem asked a bunch of times on here but every solution posted hasn\'t been helpful for me.

I just got the x86 install and installed MySQL Workbenc

Answer 1

I know this is an old question, but I had this problem and was not able to get the command line solution to work.

Instead, I went into the MySQL installer tool and reconfigured my server. I did not change any settings, just went through the menu and clicked the same buttons on every item, then restarted the server.

This got the server back up and running no problem. After all the searching, this helped me the most.