MySQL Notifier is a quick tool for Windows installations to help you manage your instances.

MySQL Notifier allows quick access to MySQL Instances running on a Windows machine in a handy fashion.
It provides a quick way to start, stop or restart your Windows based instances. It also provides easy access to MySQL Workbench (if you have Workbench installed) for system admin, queries, and configuration. It can also call a window for the MySQL Utilities Shell.

A quick way to start, stop, or restart MySQL Instances.
It will ‘discover’ new MySQL services on your Windows system and add them to the tray.

MySQL Utilities Windows as called from MySQL Notifier
And it change color to denote changes in status
Please give it a try when you download MySQL 5.6.7 for Windows. The MySQL Notifier for Microsoft Windows is installed by recent versions of the MySQL Installer and by default it’s set up to automatically start when Microsoft Windows is started. Supported versions of Microsoft Windows includes XP and greater.
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