How to connect Mosquitto in Windows11?

Mosquitto MQTT Broker
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This is crazy… can mosquitto work in Windows 11?

I had it working without any user name and password to test Node Red, but then I added user name and password, and suddenly the service stopped working in Task Manager from Windows..

Somehow I got it briefly working in Node Red (installed in my same computer), and from my phone, but it stopped working again…

I deleted and reinstalled it…. the logs were not working, so I deactivated the logs…

Current status???

Node Red doesn’t connect (from my computer)

My phone doesn’t connect (I am using an MQTT Broker app)

What can I do???… I spending all day just because I added username and password.

the config looks like this:

Explicit listener on all interfaces (this becomes the primary/default)

listener 1883 0.0.0.0
protocol mqtt
allow_anonymous false
password_file C:\Program Files\mosquitto\passwd

WebSockets listener (optional, on all interfaces)

listener 9001 0.0.0.0
protocol websockets
allow_anonymous false
password_file C:\Program Files\mosquitto\passwd

Logging

log_dest file “C:\mosquitto-logs\mosquitto.log”

log_type all

log_timestamp true

connection_messages true

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^^^ the bold area is because I added a pound simbol