Re: server service or the configuration file could not be found

[Pooja Chauhan]

Hope this helps.

I had this problem on XP and found that the root cause was that for some reason the default name of the exe that admin tool thought to be mysql server was mysqld. It must be mysqld-nt for XP. To correct it, one needs to:
0. Start the Admin tool but do not log in.
1. Skip the log in step by pressing ctrl key and clicking "Skip" which appears while you are pressing ctrl.
2. Once inside, look under the configuration tab, the last entry is the path to mysql server executable. In my case it was mysqld. As it was not being found, it was also RED.
3. Change it to mysqld-nt.
4. Restart.

Obviously, this will only work for xp.