mikegoe

I handn't considered that as this was a clean install. How would I verify or validate that theory? Thanks again!

After running a worpress site with a MySQL back-end on a Windows XP Pro box running Apache since 2003, I decided to finally upgrade the hardware. I now have a Windows 7 Home Preimium laptop with the following: Opsys: Windows 7 Home Premium MySQL: 5.5.29 Apache: 5.4 PHP: 5.4.9 I've never had MySQL issues until now. During the install I created a pwd for 'root' and three databases (one for wordpress and two for gallery). For some reason, in order to access each database I had to leave the pwd blank, so I modified the config files to log in as root with no pwd. This worked for a day, then suddenly I was denied access...and had to start using the pwd. I modified the config files again and for the remainder of the evening all worked well. The next day all of my sites could not access their database. After checking I found all three databases missing (this was after a windows 7 upgrade auto reboot... coincence?). I had backups so I reloaded and once again they all worked well... using a pwd for access... for the remainder of the day. As a precaution I disabled the windows auto update. Today I get home from work and sure enough all three sites are down again due to no database access. First I noticed one of my three databases missing. Once again I reloaded from an export I made the night before and then realized all three databases were no longer accessible without first setting the password back to blank. The swapping of pwd requirements and the dissapearing databases make no sense. I don't know if this is a MySQL problem or a Win-7 issue. Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? -Michael G.