Local 5.9.8 ; new site creation failed

From the error:

Error: Command failed: %%resourcesPath%%\\lightning-services\\mysql-8.0.16+5\\bin\\win64\\bin\\mysqladmin.exe --password= ping
mysqladmin: [Warning] Using a password on the command line interface can be insecure.\r
\u0007mysqladmin: connect to server at '::1' failed\r
error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on '::1' (10061)'\r
Check that mysqld is running on ::1 and that the port is 10005.\r
You can check this by doing 'telnet ::1 10005'\r

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:304:12)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:223:5)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:475:20)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
    at Socket.<anonymous> (internal/child_process.js:430:11)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:223:5)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:475:20)
    at Pipe.<anonymous> (net.js:664:12)

It seems like maybe MySQL is trying to connect over IPv6 (that’s the ::1 part of the error)

Windows 7 is fairly old, so I wonder if there’s an issue with how it’s resolving IPv6? Do you have any way of upgrading to a newer version of Windows?