MySQL Bugs: #8718: What is synopsis?

Bug #8718	What is synopsis?
Submitted:	23 Feb 2005 0:02	Modified:	23 Feb 2005 0:12
Reporter:	Haakon Enoksen	Email Updates:
Status:	Duplicate	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Installing	Severity:	S1 (Critical)
Version:	4,1,10	OS:	Windows (Windows XP home)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Exactly same bug as #6672. 
How can it be fixed?

How to repeat:
Same as #6672

Suggested fix:
Suggest that someone comes up with a solution.

Thank you for the bug report. Please follow the thread of bug
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=6672  as you have mentioned.

Additional Info
Try to run the server from a DOS prompt screen e.g.:

mysqld-nt --defaults-file=path_of_my.ini\my.ini --standalone --console

and verify the error showed and try to fix it.

Hi Miguel.
Before I got your comment, I had already started this procedure:

     a)     I de-installed MySql
     b)	I removed the whole catalog d:/Program Files/MySQL/
     c)     I went to My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Environment
            Variables>System Variables>Path>Edit, and removed "C:\Program
            files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin" from the path.
     d)	I stopped the Windows firewall
     e)     In the Control Panel>Performance and Maintenance>Administrative    Tools>Services I discovered that the Firewall had not stopped, so I stopped it temporarily. There was also another service running called Server, and to be sure I stopped that one also temporarily.

	I then run the installation program"mysql-essential-4.1.10-win32.msi" and it reported that it successfully completed all 4 of the final  steps.
After restarting the Windows Firewall and the "Server" stopped under point e) above, I was still able to run the Server Instance Conf Wizard without problems.

I did not change anything in the registry during this process.

One question: How do I get the MySQL icon(traffic light) on the task bar? I cannot find the file winmysqladmin.exe.