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Dear folks, 1. Many thanks. I used XAMPP many years ago (2005 on Windows XP) with success for a few months before I built a small web page.
2. I have now changed computers, and needing to upgrade Joomla! from 1.5 to 2.5, with many problems about this on Joomla forums, I installed XAMPP in early December 2012 to run a local installation to see what should be done. This was successful and I have now changed my static web page. Many thanks for the XAMPP program.
3 I tried to uninstall XAMPP from computer via Windows program unistall. Program was uninstalled. I checked in C drive for folder and C/XAMPP was still there. Folded contains a sub folder mysql. I tried to 'delete'. it did not work due 'program is working'. I tried to shred with McAfee shred program. This ran but said it needed a restart to complete. I did this. (Repeated twice as first time it did not remove the file. It did not remove file the second time.)
4. I now find only folder in XAMPP is mysql which contains folder "bin" which contains a file "mysqld.exe" , application , 7,943 KB downloaded 3/12/2012.
5. Question:
How do I delete all traces of XAMPP folder and remove this exe file?

Your help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Eionmac.

Hi Eionmac,

Maybe you have registered MySQL as Windows Service?
Please check your Windows Services Dialoge for a Service named mysql.

best wishes,
Altrea

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Maybe you have registered MySQL as Windows Service?
Please check your Windows Services Dialoge for a Service named mysql.
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Thank you. For your very rapid response.
Yes there is an entry in the Windows Services Dialog:
mysql status 'starting' 'automatic'
c:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe is reference to entry in properties.
What action do I take?
As I am no Windows expert I would hesitate to adjust the properties setting without knowledge.
Please advise thank you in advance.
Eionmac

Hi eionmac,

first you should stop the running mysql service in your service dialog
After that please open a cmd with full administrator priviledges like described here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11 ... rator.html

in that commandline type in "sc delete mysql". That should delete the service.
If that all is done you should be able to delete your XAMPP directory by hand.

best wishes,
Altrea

Thank you.
Slight differences to make it work but it eventually did.
a) - in services dialog made it 'disabled' there was no way to 'stop' as stop dialog greyed out.
- tried command line - no joy.
b) after 'a ' again, I did a cold reboot, then command line instruction to delete service. Then close down again.
c) open and reboot, no mysql in services and no C/XAMPP file
so success.
Thank you as this recovers a lot of my small hard disc.
It also illuminates to me the dedication of the forum answering folk. It is much appreciated.