I downloaded 5.5 for use under Vista and Windows 7, and found that only the instance configurator worked. From the command line there was no way to run "mysql.exe"; there was simply no authorization for any user to run. Often a complaint appeared that "authentication_string" had no default value.

I therefore downloaded and installed 5.1.


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