Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (10061) (2003)

Question

I know this question was asked a lot before but I tried some of the solutions which were given and nothing worked..

I have downloaded MySQL Workbench 6.1 on

Answer 1

I know that there are a lot of answers to this question already already but i wanted to share my experience as none of the answers provided fixed this issue for me.

After about a day of exploring different solutions I believe the issue was that I have recently installed XAMPP and it was interfering with the MySQL workbench. I have tried changing the port numbers however this hasn't helped, and it seems that both programs are sharing configuration files. Repairing MySQL in the Control Panel didn't resolve it, so now I am uninstalling MySQL and plan to reinstall it. Another potential solution maybe to uninstall XAMPP however the config files may either be deleted, or left in the xampp folder instead of the MySQL folder by doing so.