Okay I checked the services and mysql is not started so then I started xampp. Go back to services and it is still not running. Hit start on the xampp control panel for mysql and this message comes up on the control panel: Error mysql service not started.
So i use the bat to start it and this comes up.
Error Do you already have another sql service running on port 3306
Error aborting
note mysql/bin/mysqld: Shutdown complete
mysql could not be started
Press any key to continue
This is all from the command prompt. That is where I'm at. Don't know what is wrong.