Hi,
being a total rookie-newbie-wannabe I installed XAMPP on XP (d:/xampp). Kept it there for a while, for some reason didn't really get the hang of it, then removed it just by deleting the folder - as told in the instructions.
Today I wanted to take another try with all this stuff and downloaded the MySQL thing straight from mysql.com, installed it (c:/mysql) and tried to make it work as a service, following the instructions from mysql.com.
But the problem is that even though the XAMPP instructions claim that it won't mess up anything and deinstalling is just a snap, I couldn't set my new MySQL server to launch automatically, because the Windows Management Console (Control Panel -> Services) claims that there already is a server on that old XAMPP path - which in reality doesn't even exist anymore on the hard drive. When I tried to fix things from DOS prompt, it, too, told that there already is this server residing in this (deleted) folder on the (wrong) d: drive.
So how could I get rid of that old piece of info? I tried to edit the path on the Properties window of the Management Console, couldn't do it, I tried to delete the whole MySQL entry from that freaking Console, couldn't do it, I even deinstalled the new server, hoping that this old crap would somehow vanish too - it didn't help. What should I do? Where is the file that says that there's a path d:/xampp/etcetera leading to a server long gone?!
I'm in a hurry, so please, if you have any suggestions, write!
Thanks in advance,
hhhj