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I got tired of using XAMPP as WAMP has a much better control interface. I also had problems getting MySQL service to start automaticall with XAMPP - kept uninstalling itself.

Now that I have XAMPP uninstalled and WAMP installed, I can't start the MySQL service. MySQl log shows this:

090910 16:09:30 [Note] Plugin 'InnoDB' is disabled.
090910 16:09:30 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
090910 16:09:30 [ERROR] wampmysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb'
090910 16:09:30 [ERROR] Aborting

Nowhere in the my.conf file is any mention of skip-dbd, so it is not coming from there. Manually starting mysqld.exe from the bin folder shows:

090910 12:23:34 [ERROR] Can't find messagfile 'C:\Program Files\xampplite\mysql\share\english\errmsg.sys'
090910 12:23:34 [ERROR] Can't create test file C:\Program Files\xampplite\mysql\data\ENC01-ModAB.lower-test

I have no idea why it is still looking for xampp files. I have not changed a thing since the initial install of WAMP. Can anyone clue me in?

search and delete any my.ini file outside wamp folder, also run regedit to search and delete anything related to xampp

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That was it! There was a rogue my.ini in C:\WINDOWS that had the xampp configuration. Thanks!