Unable to start MySql as a service on a wnidows 7 machine

Question

I am new to MYsql and have downloaded mysql-installer-community-5.6.14.0 and tried to install. But this process stopped at the configuration step. I tried googling for 2 day

Answer 1

Open command prompt and type "netstat -an" without the quotes.

You can view the list of ports that are open. If the port 3306 is used by some other process, then modify the port in my.ini to port 3307 or some other port which no other sservice is using and restart the MySQL service, it should pick up the change.