Quote Originally Posted by NewEraCracker View Post
I also have Windows 7. I've been using it in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 as well.

Do you have any firewall installed in your system that could be blocking MariaDB ( bin\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe ) ?
Hhmm...
I use Kaspersky Pure, but version 2.2.4.0 work as well ... other versions do not work