I figured it out!!!!
In windows, the files that needs to be configured is the my.ini file.
i'm not sure if there is a query for this but here is what i did.
at the end of the my.ini file i pasted these 2 lines
ft_min_word_len=1
ft_stopword_file=""
i had to drop the table and restart the mysq service.
when the service came back up, i just recreated the table and it worked just fine