On 2 Sep 2004 at 16:01, Terry Riley wrote: > Victor > > C:\MYSQL\BIN\mysqld-opt --defaults-file="C:\WINDOWS\my.ini" MySql > > is what the path-to-executable states. If I remember rightly, the new > version should be mysqld, period. Is that what's wrong? > > Will I have to tweak the registry to change that?
You can uninstall the service my running this from a prompt: C:\MYSQL\BIN\mysqld-opt -remove Then install the new binary: C:\MYSQL\BIN\mysqld -install For a full list of command line options run this: C:\MYSQL\BIN\mysqld --help --verbose > help.txt then read help.txt Hope this helps If not try this (joking): http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?RTFM Ian --