Re: Default Win install --> mySQL autostarts when booting?

[Paul DuBois]

At 18:47 -0500 9/10/02, Gerald R. Jensen wrote:
>Which version of WinXP (Pro or Home)?
>
>On WinXP Pro, you'd have to install MySQL as a service,

???

Have to, or have the option to?

>  in which case it can
>either started manually or automatically. WinXP Home is more like WinME
>(yuck!) or Win98, where you can start MySLQ from a batch file.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Uriel Wittenberg" <uw@stripped>
>To: <mysql@stripped>; "Paul DuBois" <paul@stripped>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 6:14 PM
>Subject: Default Win install --> mySQL autostarts when booting?
>
>
>Does a normal WinXP installation of WinXP result in the mySQL server being
>automatically started up whenever one boots up the system? If so this is not
>well documented and it's not an appropriate default, at least not for
>everyone. Is there a standard way to change that so the server only runs
>when explicitly invoked?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul DuBois" <paul@stripped>
>To: "Uriel Wittenberg" <list@stripped>; <mysql@stripped>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:59 PM
>Subject: Re: Confused, discombobulated, weirded out, upset! --Windows
>standalone user
>
>
>>  >Then does a normal Windows installation set it up so the server
>autostarts
>>  >whenever you boot up? I did not manually start the server.
>>
>  > It might be installed as a service.