Apache - MySQL Service detected with wrong path. / Ports already in use

Question

I'm getting the following errors when I launch XAMPP.

12:35:23  [main]    Initializing Control Panel 12:35:23  [main]    Windows Version:   64-bit 12:35:23  [main]    XAMPP Version: 1.8.1 12:35:23  [main]    Control Panel Version: 3.1.0 3.1.0 [ Compiled: September 20th 2012 ] 12:35:23  [main]    Running with Administrator rights - good! 12:35:23  [main]    XAMPP Installation Directory: "c:\xampp\" 12:35:23  [main]    Checking for prerequisites 12:35:23  [main]    All prerequisites found 12:35:23  [main]    Initializing Modules 12:35:23  [Apache]  XAMPP Apache Service is already running on port 80 12:35:23  [Apache]  XAMPP Apache Service is already running on port 443 12:35:23  [mysql]   MySQL Service detected with wrong path 12:35:23  [mysql]   Change XAMPP MySQL settings or 12:35:23  [mysql]   Uninstall/disable the other service manually first 12:35:23  [mysql]   Found Path: "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\my.ini" MySQL 12:35:23  [mysql]   Expected Path: c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe --defaults-file=c:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini mysql 12:35:23  [mysql]   Problem detected! 12:35:23  [mysql]   Port 3306 in use by "mysqld.exe"! 12:35:23  [mysql]   MySQL WILL NOT start without the configured ports free! 12:35:23  [mysql]   You need to uninstall/disable/reconfigure the blocking application 12:35:23  [mysql]   or reconfigure MySQL to listen on a different port 12:35:23  [main]    Starting Check-Timer 12:35:23  [main]    Control Panel Ready 

I wasn't able to find a proper solution on google, so I'm kinda' hoping someone could help me out with this.

Oh and, XAMPP is running properly. Apache and the MySQL service are both running ..

Answer 1

1. Go to cmd and run it with Administrator mode.

2. Uninstall mysql service through command prompt using the following command.

           sc delete mysql 

3. restart XAMPP