privileges

I issued a command of: DROP USER 'root'@'localhost'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'root'@'%'; ...in PhpMyAdmin. Immediately after the execution, I was forced out PhpMyAdmin. I got: error #1130 - Host 'localhost' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server, how to resolve my problem? Use the IP instead: DROP USER 'root'@'127.0.0.1'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'root'@'%'; For more possibilities, see this link . To create the root user, seeing as MySQL is local & all, execute the following from the command line (Start > Run > "cmd" without quotes): mysqladmin -u root password 'mynewpassword'

I know that we shouldn't being using the registry to store Application Data anymore, but in updating a Legacy application (and wanting to do the fewest changes), what Registry Hives are non-administrators allowed to use? Can I access all of HKEY_CURRENT_USER (the application currently access HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ) without Administrator privileges? Euro Micelli In general, a non-administrator user has this access to the registry: Read/Write to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Read Only: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (which is just a link to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes ) It is possible to change

As pointed out in Writing config file in C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApp\myapp.cfg, vs. Administrator privilege , it is not a good idea to write a config file in C:\Program Files (x86)\MyApp\myapp.cfg . Instead of this, my software now saves its data in a subdir of %ALLUSERSPROFILE% (ex : C:\ProgramData\MyApp\myapp.cfg on Win7) [I use myfile = open(filename, 'a') in Python to do this.] I now encounter an issue about this file : I installed the software with User A , and ran it, then the file C:\ProgramData\MyApp\myapp.cfg was written. Then, I changed user to User B , and ran my software again :

I would like to display some extra UI elements when the process is being run as Administrator as opposed to when it isn't, similar to how Visual Studio 2008 displays 'Administrator' in its title bar when running as admin. How can I tell? Technically, if you want to see if the member is the local administrator account , then you can get the security identifier (SID) of the current user through the User property on the WindowsIdentity class , like so (the static GetCurrent method gets the current Windows user): WindowsIdentity windowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); string sid =