Re: Mysql Administrator error "Could not find settings"
For me it was a combination of two things, if you find Wade's instructions aren't enough.
The MySQL Admin program tries to determine the location of the "my.ini" file by looking at the "command line" of the service that's running.
By default, the service is installed such that the command line reads something like
"C:\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe" "--defaults-file=C:\WINDOWS\MY.INI" MySQL50
(where "MySQL50" is the actual name of the service on your machine)
Colin, in the second post on this thread, had it right though. That needs to be changed (using regedt32) to read
"C:\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe" --defaults-file="C:\WINDOWS\MY.INI" MySQL50
(note the change of the quotation marks)
Again, from this post, the key you want to change is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\MySQL50\ImagePath
Making this change is what made the error/warning message from MySQL Admin finally go away for me.