(I think I messed up here. I decided to start from scratch, I removed "MySQL Servers and Clients 4.0.13" from the program list (as it appears when I run the "setup.exe" it installs MySQL software in Windows) and deleted all the folders (which included the old "c:\mysql\" directory with mysqld in the \bin folder) before performing the remove instructions below. So now I can't get to the correct "mysqld" service to remove it. It also appears that I can't remove it in windows as I don't see a "remove" or "delete" option in the Services area where you directed me. Will that be "stuck" there, now? MySQL and mysqld2 still appear in the services list.)
You need to remove the services using a MySQL server. You can use any of mysqld, mysqld-nt, mysqld-max, or mysql-max-nt to do this. Suppose you use mysqld. This command removes the service having the default name ("MySQL"):
mysqld --remove
And this one removes a service named "mysqld2":
mysqld --remove mysqld2
net stop svc-name-1 net stop svc-name-2(by "svs-name-1 and -2" do you refer to mysqld and mysqld2? If not, to what services do you refer?)
MySQL (the default name) and mysqld2 (your second service name)
> To remove them:
mysqld --remove svc-name-1 mysqld --remove svc-name-2(it appears that you do not as "mysqld --remove mysqld" doesn't seem to make sense. To what services do you refer?)
See above.
Then start from the beginning, using the mysqld --install instructions in the manual.
(So I don't have to "Uninstall" them in windows since they are now services? Or does this have the same effect?)
I'd suggest you to get familiar with the Windows services concept. Services are, uh, services that can start and stop software programs (like the MySQL server). Rather than starting the software manually, you'd set up a service that does that (and can do that automatically, e.g. at system startup).
Windows (NT, 2000, XP) usually uses services to start software that runs in the background, like the MySQL server.
Unlike software, you don't uninstall a service, you _remove_ it, so it won't be there anymore to start the software program it's supposed to start. For the MySQL server, that's done with the "mysqld --remove <servicename>" command. (How do we remove the mysqld service?)
You don't have a service named "mysqld", do you?
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