Nevertheless, if you want to conserve memory and clock-cycles, you can turn off the Windows MySQL service and start MySQL from the command line when needed. A full MySQL install on Windows includes ...

My SQL crashes on Service start. it doesn't crash immediately if IIS is turned off (MySQL runs Wordpress DB) I'm not sure where to start. I'm guessing the ...

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment.