While I'm waiting for my login probs at the Oracle/MySQL forum to resolve, I thought maybe folks here could help me...
I had 64-bit MySQL server & ODBC connector installed on my laptop (Win7 Professional, Service Pack 1) but when I tried VBA-ing into my test MySQL db via ODBC, I kept getting gnarly runtime errors - I don't remember the exact error number but google said this is a bitness mismatch: I am using 32-bit versions of Access and Excel.
Since I hadn't built anything except a dinky test db with MySQL yet, I took the ignorant step of just deleting all MySQL-named folders and subfolders from both Program Files and Program Files x86, then downloaded the 32-bit version of MySQL 5.7 community server for Windows. The setup wizard didn't give any error messages while it was running; the machine had full internet connectivity and all, but when I Search for "MySQL" on my machine all I get is the folder for the installer and the "Notifier" (whose purpose I don't understand :/ ).
Considering the clumsy krap I've already done, is there, from here, a way to actually scrub - the way a full-on deinstaller would - the system of all traces of the former, 64-bit MySQL installation so that the next time I try installing the 32-bit one it'll actually work?
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