MYSQL PORT 3306

[dogdomain]

MySQL set for port 3306. How do I change the port or how do I find out what app is using port 3306 already?????

[Altrea]

how do I find out what app is using port 3306 already?????

Use the XAMPP control panel netstat button, or use Windows Ressourcemonitors network tab, or use third party program TCPView, or send a "netstat -aon|find ":3306"" command to get the PID (process ID) and find that PID in your windows task manager processes tab... there are many ways.
Very common this will be another MySQL or MariaDB installation. 3306 is not known for any other famous program tend to use.

[dogdomain]

How do I change the 3306 port for MySQL win 10 please. I have found several help, but still cannot get it done. I tried one and did as they say and it would not change to 3307.

[Altrea]

Take a look into your \xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini file. Should not be that difficult to search and replace the 2 occurrences of the number 3306.
After that you will also need to change phpMyAdmins configuration too to connect on the correct port.

But i still recommend to find out which other program is occupying port 3306 and stop this program.