[AccessD] MySQL is broke now

The service never ran.  I did some stuff including modifying my.ini to add federated.

Doing that stopped the error log being generated but the service still would not start.  I found 
something that discusses deleting the service (which worked) but the thing that adds the service 
does not work.

My windows paste buffer is not working between my VM and my laptop so the following is just typed in.

The line is:

mysql --install MySQL --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\My.Ini"

This does in fact add a line to the services but the problem is that the service thinks that 
MySQLd.exe is in thesame location as that my.ini whereas it is in fact down in a bin under that dir.

I.e. the "path to executable" is looking for the MySQLD.exe in the wrong place and thus cannot be 
started.

This is getting annoying.  I have been trying various things for hours and just cannot get MySQL to 
run as a service and now the entry in the service table (or registry?) is corrupted.

Sigh.

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John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com