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Click on the “Download” button.
Click “No thanks, just start my download.”
Once the file is downloaded, execute it.
In the MySQL Installer window, click on “Install MySQL Products”
Click “I accept the license terms” and then click “Next” on the License Information window
Click “Execute” on the Find latest products window, then click “Next”.
Select “Custom” on the Choosing a Setup Type window
On development machines and single drive servers, change the Data Path to “C:”
On multi-drive servers, change the Data Path to the “DATA” drive
Then click “Next”
On the Feature Selection window
Select Server with all of its subcomponents
On a development machines:
Select Applications and uncheck all of the subcomponents except for MySQL Workbench
Select Documentation with all of its subcomponents.
Then click “Next”
Click “Next” on the Check Requirements window
Click “Execute” on the Installation Progress window, then click “Next”
Click “Next” on the Configuration Overview window.
Choose the appropriate “Config Type” for the machine
Click “Next”
Type a complex password for the root account.
Click “Next”
Change “Windows Service Name” to MySQL
Click “Next”
Click “Next” on the Configuration Overview window to configure the sample database
Click “Next” when that operation completes
Click “Finish” on the Installation Complete window.
Open the Service Control Manager and stop the MySQL service. On a development machine, change the startup type to “Manual”
Open the my.ini file and change the datadir value to “C:\data” instead of “C:\data\data”
Move all of the files and directories from “C:\data\data” to “C:\data”
Delete the “C:\data\data” directory
