I can not find my cnf on my windows computer

Question

My computer is Windows XP    I need to find my cnf to get all privileges back to the root user  I accidentally removed some privileges of the root user  I still have the password and there is no problem for me to log in to MySQL as the root user  But I can not alter a table

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Here is my answer    Win R  shortcut for  run    type services msc  Enter You should find an entry like  MySQL56   right click on it  select properties You should see something like  D  Program Files MySQL MySQL Server 5 6 bin mysqld  --defaults-file  D  ProgramData MySQL MySQL Server 5 6 my ini  MySQL56   Full answer here  https   stackoverflow com a 20136523 1316649

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Start- Search- For Files and Folders- All Files and Folders   type  my cnf  and hit search

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Windows 7 location is  C  Users All Users MySQL MySQL Server 5 5 my ini  For XP may be  C  Documents and Settings All Users MySQL MySQL Server 5 5 my ini  At the tops of these files are comments defining where my cnf can be found

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To answer your question  on Windows  the my cnf file may be called my ini   MySQL looks for it in the following locations  in this order      PROGRAMDATA  MySQL MySQL Server 5 7 my ini   PROGRAMDATA  MySQL MySQL Server 5 7 my cnf  WINDIR  my ini   WINDIR  my cnf C  my ini  C  my cnf INSTALLDIR my ini  INSTALLDIR my cnf   See also http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 7 en option-files html  Then you can edit the config file and add an entry like this    mysqld  skip-grant-tables   Then restart the MySQL Service and you can log in and do what you need to do   Of course you want to disable that entry in the config file as soon as possible   See also http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 7 en resetting-permissions html

User · Answer

you can search this file   resetroot bat  just double click it so that your root accout will be reset and all the privileges are turned into YES

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You can find the basedir  and within maybe your my cnf  if you do the following query in your mysql-Client  e g  phpmyadmin   SHOW VARIABLES

[mysql] I can not find my.cnf on my windows computer

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