The ODBC control applet in Windows can be found in two places:<br>

1. Control Panel.
2. Administrative Tools (if you are using Windows 2000 or XP).<br>

If you have Windows 2000 or XP, the easiest way to find it is to find
your "Administrative Tools" folder (usually you need to tweak the Start
menu to make it visible) and double click on the "Data Sources (ODBC)"
icon. If you have Windows XP you can also open control panel and use
the Administrative Tools icon in there.

If you don't have Windows 2000 or XP, you need to find a file called
odbccp32.cpl (or similar). If this is placed in the windows\system
directory it should be visible in Control Panel. If it is not visible,
you should use TweakUI to enable it. TweakUI is a Microsoft utility and
can be found by searching on download.com .

Cheers

Andrew.



David Blomstrom wrote:

I've checked Start > Programs very thoroughly, and I
can't find any reference to ODBC. That's what's so
weird; I can see it in Add/Remove programs.

I made a desktop shortcut icon to the system32/ODBCad
file, but all it does is open up ODBC DataSource
Administrator, which doesn't appear to be a start
program.

I uinstalled and reinstalled ODBC, hoping the start
icon would register, but nothing changed.

Thanks.


--- Peter Brawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



David,

>I installed ODBC before but never got a chance to
do
>much with it before my computer crashed. But I
could
>have sworn there was a simple icon that I clicked
to
>start it, just like a normal software program.

My recollection is that ODBC installation "normally"
adds ODBCAdmin to the Start Menu, so it's probably there somewhere,
but if you want a desktop icon for ODBC Administrator, right click on
it in Windows Explorer and select 'Create a Shortcut'.


PB


David Blomstrom wrote:



--- Neculai Macarie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:





I just installed MySQL's ODBC program, but I


can't


figure out how to launch it. I see no reference


to


ODBC when I go to Start > Programs. The only


thing


resembling an executable icon I can find is in my
Add/Remove programs directory. I did a Windows




search




and found many files named ODBC, most of them in
Windows/Prefetch and Windows/system32, but none


of


them appear to be executable programs.

I posted a message on MySQL's ODBC forum but




haven't




received any replies. Does anyone know of a way


to


locate ODBC's executable file and create a


desktop


icon?




I think the path is to configure ODBC datasources:
%SystemRoot%\system32\odbcad32.exe

There isn't a MySQL ODBC executable as far as I
know.

--
<mack />




OK, I found it there...but how do you start it?


Double


clicking it just brings up all sorts of information
and choices.

I installed ODBC before but never got a chance to


do


much with it before my computer crashed. But I


could


have sworn there was a simple icon that I clicked


to


start it, just like a normal software program.

Thanks.




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