title: unable to start cassandra on windows 10
body: <p>I am new to this field and was trying to use cassandra (Datastax). I inatlled JDK and cassandra as per the instruction given on their site.</p>
  
  <p>but while I am trying to run CQL shell I am getting below error. I searched to find a solution but couldnt find one.</p>
  
  <p>did re-install the cassandra but didnt help. can you sggest any solution ?</p>
  
  <pre><code>    C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\apache-cassandra\bin&gt;cqlsh 127.0.0.1 9042
  Connection error: ('Unable to connect to any servers', {'127.0.0.1': error(10061, "Tried connecting to [('127.0.0.1', 9042)]. Last error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it")})
  </code></pre>