To easily upgrade your WAMP installation, go to the WAMPServer Backup Repo and download the Wampserver update x.x.x (whatever the latest version of WAMPServer is) from the second section of the page titles Wampserver Updates. That will upgrade the WAMPServer code, and nothing else. All code/databases will remain just as they were before.
If you have managed to forget the password for the root user on your MySQL installation you can easily change it by following this method. Stop the mysql service Find and open the my.ini file Find the [wampmysqld](32bit) or [wampmysqld64](64bit) section in the ini file Add this line directly after that section heading: skip-grant-tables Restart the mysql service. Open the MySQL console The next steps will reset the password for the root user, if you need to reset the password…