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    Reset root password in MySQL (WIN XP)

    I am not sure if this is the best place to post this information... but i wanted to help anyone who is struggling with this problem.

    I spent way too many hours trying to install and work with MySQL (Windows XP). It was VERY frustrating. The problem was with the root password. For some reason, probably a mistake that I made...
    the root password was rejected by MySQL when I tried to build a connection.. or anything else.

    I am very new to MySQL so I figured... ok... i'll just mess around, find the place where I can reset the password... and i'll be on-my-way...

    Nope... you have to uninstall MySQL the reinstall and reconfigure...
    So... I uninstalled MySQL and reinstalled... didn't work!!!!

    After MANY hours I sent an eMail to Steve Workings (I was working my way through his excellent 'XBasic for Web' lessons). He responded very quickly... I LOVE this forum!...

    Steve pointed me in the right direction & after an hour or so I came up with the following:


    1) use Control Panel -> Admin -> Services to stop the MySQL service

    2) run the MySQL install program (i'm using version 5.5.16)

    3) select 'uninstall' from the first dialog

    4) delete the 'MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5' directory from the Program Files... a reboot may be necessary... even then i was forced to drag some of the files to the desktop & delete from there

    5) use the windows explorer to delete all MySQL Server directories from \Documents and Settings\AllUsers\Application Data

    6) similarly, remove these directories from \Documents and Settings\'USERNAME'\Applicationn Data
    7) reboot

    8) use Run -> Regedit.exe -> find to find & remove all entries with MySQL BUT !!! NB! be careful to avoid removing any MySQL entries related to Toad or Workbench

    9) reboot

    10) reinstall MySQL

    11) celebrate!

    I hope this information helps those of you who may be having similar problems.

    David
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    Re: Reset root password in MySQL (WIN XP)

    David I went through the same thing when I upgraded to 5.5
    Yeah it was brutal
    Chad Brown

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      Re: Reset root password in MySQL (WIN XP)

      Ran into the exact same thing. I had the password working in Alpha, and with Navicat, so I still had access, but neither would tell me what the password was without encryption. (At least I didn't figure out how.) I do keep a record with almost all my passwords so I can refer to it if I need to, but I did not put the MySQL password in there for some reason.

      I didn't think the uninstall and reinstall process was so bad, though I may have missed the regedit part. (I would probably have used the Norton 360 registry cleanup.) But other then reinstalling it to a bad location, again, everything went fine. I did use Navicat to back up my database first.

      But I have since ran into this: http://www.tech-faq.com/how-do-i-res...-password.html

      How to Reset a MySQL Password

      A MySQL password can be reset in 5 easy steps:

      Stop the mysqld daemon process.
      Start the mysqld daemon process with the �skip-grant-tables option.
      Start the mysql client with the -u root option.
      Execute the UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(�password�) WHERE User=�root�;
      Execute the FLUSH PRIVILEGES; command.

      These steps reset the password for the �root� account to �password.� To change the password for a different account or to set a different password, just edit the variables in single quotes in step 4.

      If the user knows his/her existing MySQL root password, steps 1-3 are not necessary.
      Unfortunately I don't know if this is just for Unix though, because I found similar steps for Unix on another site.

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        Re: Reset root password in MySQL (WIN XP)

        When I upgraded form 5.1 to 5.5 all I did was the following:
        1. Backup up projects w. Navicat - i.e. "Dump SQL file"
        2. Uninstall 5.1
        3. Install 5.5
        4. Run Navicat and "Execute SQL file"

        That's it.

        Oh, maybe I created a "new database" for each project first w. Navicat (can't remember). Of course, a "new db" in Navicat is more or less a folder of sorts structure within Navicat.
        Peter
        AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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