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DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 10 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Two Million Mile Club
US Capital Club
Flying Colonel
Carolina Club
Everett 1500 Club

Myrtle Beach, SC

1,547 legs, 4,986.4 hours
19 legs, 27.1 hours online
1,525 legs, 4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 11 2012 15:39 ET by Josh Martin

I installed FSX on a new computer a few days ago with Windows 7, 64-bit. The program was working fine originally. I purchased My Traffic X, and it continued working fine. Yesterday, I purchased Ultimate Terrain X, and was trying to install. FSX would then not open. I would try to open the prog, and it would show the loading screen with the circle spinning like it was loading.

I have since uninstalled, reinstalled, and it now will not connect to activate the program after I enter the serial key. Nothing will work. I don't know what to do. I have spent 5 hours so far today trying to fix this, all for nothing. Please help

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

AFV292
Senior Captain, A380-800

Joined on March 02 2009
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
50 State Club
Diplomatic Mission
Globetrotter Extraordinaire
Flying Colonel
Two Million Mile Club
Historical Five Hundred Club
Under African Skies

"Flying steadily onwards and upwards"
ZA

1,845 legs, 5,394.9 hours
1,833 legs, 5,371.5 hours ACARS
1,908 legs, 5,542.5 hours total
3 legs dispatched, 4.5 hours

Posted onPost created on August 11 2012 15:55 ET by Mark Stead

Have you tried to roll your pc back using System Restore?

Posted onPost created on August 11 2012 16:09 ET by Josh Martin

well, I "tried." for one, it would only let me go back until 11:20am this morning, which would not have fixed it. #2, I did try the 11:20 anyway, but then it told me that the restore failed because maybe a virus program was running. I disabled that, still wouldn't work.

dropped nearly $1700 into this thing and now I can't even fly. was very frustrated, just beyond pissed off at this point

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA2214
Captain, A330-300
OLP
E-MAIL

Joined on March 25 2005
50 State Club
Everett 500 Club
Globetrotter
White Knuckles Club
Million Mile Club
Millennium Club
US Capital Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"One takeoff and landing at a time"
Tampa, FL

1,124 legs, 2,777.2 hours
35 legs, 61.3 hours online
1,005 legs, 2,492.2 hours ACARS
1,153 legs, 2,869.7 hours total
111 legs dispatched, 90.7 hours

Posted onPost created on August 12 2012 14:28 ET by Anthony Katosh

How long did you wait. With all my addons FSX takes any were from 5 to 10 mins just to get passed the opening screen.

Anthony Katosh (DVA2214)

DVA9589
First Officer, A320

Joined on March 14 2011
50 State Club
US Coastal Club
Commuter Conquest
Millennium Club
US Mountaineer Club
Globetrotter
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett 500 Club

Stuart, IA USA

1,483 legs, 2,366.0 hours
45 legs, 90.3 hours online
1,468 legs, 2,343.5 hours ACARS
4 legs, 8.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 12 2012 18:57 ET by Randy Donnelly

Try deleting the fsx.cfg and restarting FSX. It will build a new one.

Randy Donnelly

First Officer, A320

Posted onPost created on August 13 2012 14:51 ET by Josh Martin

Randy Donnelly wrote:

Try deleting the fsx.cfg and restarting FSX. It will build a new one.

I don't see that file anywhere. I even searched for it on the hard drive. Any suggestions?

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA10728
Chief Pilot, B757-200
OLP

Joined on May 10 2012
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Million Mile Club
White Knuckles Club
Everett 500 Club
Online Six Century Club
Millennium Club

"Carpe Momentum"
Colorado Springs, CO

1,032 legs, 3,845.7 hours
699 legs, 2,418.2 hours online
998 legs, 3,683.8 hours ACARS
12 legs, 22.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on August 13 2012 15:39 ET by Gregory Bogosian

Open your browser and paste this in it: %AppData%\Microsoft\FSX\ the fsx file in this folder is your config file smile

Posted onPost created on August 13 2012 20:10 ET by Josh Martin

Greg, did what you said...but no files appeared as you mentioned. Please advise

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA10141
Captain, B767-300

Joined on September 07 2011
Online Century Club
Double Century Club

Western United States

237 legs, 463.0 hours
145 legs, 283.2 hours online
236 legs, 461.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on August 13 2012 21:03 ET by Anthony Coll

I suggest you download REVO uninstaller and run it. It's free program that will delete any program/files including the stuff in the registry. You have to choose advanced uninstall to clear the registry entries too. I would perform the advanced uninstall on FSX, Traffix X and UTX. Then try re-installing everything.

If you just used the add/remove program on Windows 7 that will not clear the registry entries from these programs. I believe this is why things got all fouled up. It's happend to me before; that's how I learned about Revo Uninstaller.

http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html

You can also try Wise Registry Cleaner which does what its names implies (it only cleans up the registry). It's a free program too.

http://www.wisecleaner.com/wiseregistrycleanerfree.html

Also when you install and run any program on Windows 7, you need to choose "run as adminstrator." Right click on the icon and you'll see this option.

Anthony Coll

Captain, B767-300

Posted onPost created on August 13 2012 21:46 ET by Gregory Bogosian

Did a folder come up? Anything?

Gregory Bogosian (DVA10728)

Posted onPost created on August 13 2012 21:54 ET by Gregory Bogosian

Anyhow, next thought is to insert the DVD and use the repair wizard. If you decide to uninstall be very careful, doing it wrong will keep you chasing FSX fragments for days trying to get the DVD to do a full reinstall.

Gregory Bogosian (DVA10728)

Posted onPost created on August 13 2012 21:54 ET by Gregory Bogosian

One side thought, what is your install directory?

Gregory Bogosian (DVA10728)

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