MySQL will not work

[Sid_V13]

PS C:\Users\veteran\Desktop\storefront> mysql -u root -p
mysql: The term ‘mysql’ is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
PS C:\Users\veteran\Desktop\storefront>

I keep getting this error.
I have verified its path dozens of times over the last 6 hours. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled MySQL. Everything is up to date and i have checked that everything should cooperate. I do not know what more i can do. Any help would be appreciated

[tooTALLtim]

Can you verify that MySQL is running? That may be the first troubleshooting step.

Here’s what I found for Windows:
How to connect to MySQL from the Windows command line.

Or try this solution that was posted previously:

After installing mysqlclient in vscode for django project , i tried to connect

mysql : The term ‘mysql’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. At line:1 char:1 mysql -u root -p + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (mysql:Strin g) [], CommandNotFoundException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundEx