MySQL is proprietary and some developers are now merging to Postgre SQL.  If you are running windows you might come across this error.  I am using windows 7 ultimate and encountered this error during installation.  I solved the problem using the command postgresql-9.0.1-1-windows.exe –install_runtimes 0 You need to navigate to where you downloaded the installer using the command prompt then you can use the command above to run the installer w/o the error Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook

My friend forgot his mysql password and the database needs to be accessed by the root user.  My friend is running MySQL 5.1 and as I browsed the MySQL manual the solution provided is not working though a slight change was made.  Just like the provided step in the manual: Log on to your system as Administrator. Stop the MySQL server if it is running. For a server that is running as a Windows service, go to the Services manager:

Its been a while that I used Scite as my default source code editor.  It has been my default IDE for 2 years and now I am trying to use Notepad++, eclipse and RapidPHP but I am so uncomfortable using them.  Now, I am running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit on my machine and installed Scite but can’t get it to be on the default programs because windows 7 treats Scite and notepad as one.  To solve my problem I