Hi. I'm a relative MySQL newbie. A few weeks ago, I installed MySQL 4.0.13 on my WinXP Home box. After some use, the system began to run very slowly, e.g, the login box, start menu, and other apps were taking a few seconds to respond to my mouse. Rebooting did not solve the problem.
By trial and error, I pinpointed the problem to the MySQL daemon, so I shut down the daemon and uninstalled MySQL so that my system would respond after reboot, and this worked. I would like to work through these issues, so I have reinstalled MySQL 4.0.13. But I am back at square one, trying to set up the server. I see the mysqld-nt.exe daemon running, but I cannot connect. When I try "mysql -u root" or "mysql -u root -p" with my previous password, I get ERROR 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) I guess I need some hand-holding again, I can't seem to get past this. Thanks for your help.
