MySQL forgot root password under windows

1. Run cmd as a system administrator.

2. Check to see if MySQL is started and stop: net stop MySQL if it is already started.

3. Switch to the MySQL installation path: D:\WAMP\MySQL-5.6.36\bin; If you already have an environment variable, you can switch it off.

4. At the command line input:mysqld-nt--skip-grant-tables

5. Restart a CMD command window as an administrator, enter:mysql-uroot-p,enter into the database.

6. If you do not want to change the password, just want to see the original password, you can execute this statement at the command line

　　　

Select Host,user from MySQL. user; // You can view the user and password

7. If you want to change the password, execute the following statement in sequence below the command line

　　　

 Use MySQL Update User set Password=whereuser="root"; // ' New_pass '  privileges; quit.

8. Restart MySQL, enter the password to login!

9 mysql-u root-p Enter your password and try it.

MySQL forgot root password under windows