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Running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with Full Admin Control and UAC is Totally off.

I'm following a tutorial I bought from Lynda.com called "MySQL Essential Training".

In the tutorial after the installation of XAMPP, the tutor opened up a command prompt and typed "mysql", and it showed him that it was running or whatever. However when I type that in (on a fresh install of XAMPP btw), I'm getting this:

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C:\Users\Administrator\desktop>mysql
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
C:\Users\Administrator\desktop>


This is confusing me greatly though because MySQL seems to be activated here:


I even set my path in my environment variables. Can anyone help me along with this so I can continue my training???

Ok seems like I have to go though the process of first typing in:

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mysql -u root -p

And then I have to enter in the password, but...

The guy on the tutorial was able to just type:

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mysql

And everything worked. How do I get it to do this?

I'm also receiving constant 1064 ERRORS even though my syntax IS correct. Can someone help me here. I'm lost as to what to do or correct now.

Where did you install XAMMP?