Here is my answer:
- Win+R (shortcut for ‘run’), type
services.msc
, Enter - You should find an entry like ‘MySQL56’, right click on it, select properties
- You should see something like
"D:/Program Files/MySQL/MySQL Server 5.6/bin\mysqld" --defaults-file="D:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\my.ini" MySQL56
Full answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/20136523/1316649