Installing MySQL on Windows
- After downloading the latest stable release version of MySQL, locate the setup.exe, and execute it. When prompted choose custom install.
- Choose a path to install it. I recommend keeping to the default, which is c:\mysql.
- Select all components, and continue until done.
- Go to the MySQL folder, and start winmysqladmin.exe
- Choose a username and password for yourself.
- In the console, click on the my.ini tab, and choose "create shortcut in startmenu" option.
- In the my.ini tab, also chck that all the configurable options are correct in accordance to your computer.
- Close the admin console and restart it. If admin program runs with a green light, everything fine.
