RE: Starting/stopping server on WinXP Home standalone -- what's appropriate way?

[Ed Carp]

> I want to have manual startup/shutdown but still am not sure of the
> appropriate way to do this.

Change the startup type from "Automatic" to "Manual".

> The "Computer Management" utility allows me to stop the service and/or
> change the service startup type to manual or "disabled." Is "disabled" the
> same as removing the service?

No.

> Is there some other way to have the MySQL server running on a
> standalone Win
> system other than as a service? Which way is appropriate for standalone?

Read Paul's previous post.  Like Paul said:

> Alternatively, if the service is registered, you can change it to be
> a "manual" service rather than an "automatic" service.  Then you use
> the Services Manager to start it up as a service, but you have to do
> so yourself. It won't start whenever Windows starts.

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