problem with MySQL

[Aymen++]

i installed MySQL in my computer, but when i tried to connect by typing: mysql
this message appeared:
error 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061).
why?

[raf]

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Can_not_connect_to_server.html

[Steveo31]

mysqld-nt.exe (or something similar) isn't running.