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Re: Unable to update security settings
Posted by: Barry Galbraith
Date: August 13, 2014 05:08PM

>But apparently that password is saved in

"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MySQL"

which the “Remove MySQL Products “ option does not remove.

Correct! You would be mighty annoyed if installing a new version of MySQL destroyed any existing data!

>The reason I was deleting the old version and upgrading to the new was that I lost my passwords.

Then you needed to reset your root password.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/resetting-permissions.html

Good luck,
Barry.

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