From: Peter Brawley
Date: February 13 2005 8:09pm
Subject: Re: Where's my ODBC icon?
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David,

 >I installed ODBC before but never got a chance to do
 >much with it before my computer crashed. But I could
 >have sworn there was a simple icon that I clicked to
 >start it, just like a normal software program.

My recollection is that ODBC installation "normally" adds ODBCAdmin to 
the Start Menu, so it's probably there somewhere, but if you want a 
desktop icon for ODBC Administrator, right click on it in Windows 
Explorer and select 'Create a Shortcut'.

PB


David Blomstrom wrote:

>--- Neculai Macarie <mack@stripped> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>>I just installed MySQL's ODBC program, but I can't
>>>figure out how to launch it. I see no reference to
>>>ODBC when I go to Start > Programs. The only thing
>>>resembling an executable icon I can find is in my
>>>Add/Remove programs directory. I did a Windows
>>>      
>>>
>>search
>>    
>>
>>>and found many files named ODBC, most of them in
>>>Windows/Prefetch and Windows/system32, but none of
>>>them appear to be executable programs.
>>>
>>>I posted a message on MySQL's ODBC forum but
>>>      
>>>
>>haven't
>>    
>>
>>>received any replies. Does anyone know of a way to
>>>locate ODBC's executable file and create a desktop
>>>icon?
>>>      
>>>
>>I think the path is to configure ODBC datasources:
>>%SystemRoot%\system32\odbcad32.exe
>>
>>There isn't a MySQL ODBC executable as far as I
>>know.
>>
>>-- 
>><mack />
>>    
>>
>
>OK, I found it there...but how do you start it? Double
>clicking it just brings up all sorts of information
>and choices.
>
>I installed ODBC before but never got a chance to do
>much with it before my computer crashed. But I could
>have sworn there was a simple icon that I clicked to
>start it, just like a normal software program.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
>
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