In my case, it turned out to be a simple case of spacing.
Turns out, i had a space inserted after the last ; and before ""C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7" For this very simple reason, no matter what i did, MySql was still not being recognized.
Once i eliminated the spaces before and after path, it worked perfectly.
In retrospect, seems like a very obvious answer, but nobody's mentioned it anywhere.
Also, i'm new to this whole windows thing, so please excuse me if it sounds very simple.