MySQL Installation error: Unable to update security settings I tried to configure MySQL server 5.5 on Windows and this is what I got:

mysql-server-5.5-winx64:56 - Attempting to update security settings. 
mysql-server-5.5-winx64:100 - Unable to update security settings. Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts. 
mysql-server-5.5-winx64:62 - Attempting to verify command-line client shortcut. 


Any thoughts? I found this article on it, but I'm not really sure what to do. I tried getting random processes to work but it didn't seem to change much.
Problem was with root access and firewall.

To fix this I:


Ran it on a machine with full root acces 
Added all MySQL items to
firewall list and ran reconfiguration of the MySQL


Ability to access root is important. I tried repeating this on a machine were I do not have root access and failed on every attempt