Steps to change password if forgotten:
1. Stop the MySQL service
cmd command: net stop mysql
2. Create a mysql_init.txt file
Add a sentence: ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '12345678'; The information in the quotation marks is the account number and password
keep;
3. Enter the bin directory where MySQL is installed and open the cmd console.
Execute: mysqld --init-file=f:/mysql_init.txt --console
You can view the running results on the console, and the following prompts will show that you can successfully log in with the password 12345678;
4. Reopen a cmd console
Log in with the password in TXT and change the password as follows
5. Stop the command running in the first cmd window, then restart mysql and delete the created mysql_init.txt file, and log in with the modified password 123456, as shown in the figure
If you can already log in and use