Resetting ROOT password in MySQL 5.6

Question

I have been following these instructions for resetting root password for local installation of MySQL 5.6 on Windows 7 laptop.

I stopped

Answer 1

The issue has been resolved.

As stated in my question I followed instructions from MySQL manual.

The process did not go exactly as described (and this was the reason for my original post) but it worked nevertheless (see UPDATE section in my post).