Generation Gap

  Either a second instance of MySQL or another service is running on port 3306. You can either stop the service which is running on port 3306 by getting the process id of that service: netstat -a -n -o | find "3306" and then killing that process (e.g. for process id  1234 ): taskkill /pid 1234 /f or run MySQL on a different port. Mysql port already in use