Advice needed please

[Nav]

Dead right, Hagar!

Alanmus, I think our respective musings have found the problem.

[alanmus]

Hi Hagar. Sorry about that    I didn't know it mattered if FS9 was on a different drive than the OS  Regards....Alan

[alanmus]

Hi Nav. I have 71.5 Gigabytes of free space on G: I reckon even FS9 should be happy with that!    

[Nav]

Yep, that's enough!

[Hagar]

Please don't apologise. I'm just suggesting things as they occur to me in case they help sort this out. I found before that something I say might hit the spot without me even realising it. I've never tried installing FS9 on another drive so I'm not sure of my facts. In my experience other M$ sims have always run perfectly well on various different drives & partitions. The fact that FS9 will still install those files to the primary drive makes it different. Some of those files are automatically updated while the sim is running & I wondered if this could somehow explain your problem.

I usually install programs to their default locations. Not always the case but I assume this is where they will work most efficiently.

[alanmus]

Hi All.

 Well! that didn't work. Just to recap: I uninstalled FS9, ran a search and deleted everything to do with FS9- except the back up- from my HD, and then did a reinstall but the same problems have appeared so I have done the uninstall routine again and my HD is once again clear of any thing to do with FS9. Or is it?, I am wondering if maybe there is something left on my HD that I havn't found that is somehow affecting the new install.

 It has been suggested that it might be a registry problem so I had a look and even after the uninstall I found this.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\DirectInput\FS9.EXE00534D690007E000

 It stikes me that as FS9 is no longer on my PC, a directory entry containing a FS9.EXE is not needed, but as the directory is a bit of a black art to me I dont know if it is safe to delete it!. Has anybody got any ideas please and what does \DirectInput\ mean?

          Regards to all...........Alan

[Nav]

Alan, I'm 'computer-illiterate' too!

There's a thing called Registry Clean you can download, if you haven't got it already.

[beaky]

I may have missed mention of it on this thread, and it may be a dumb question, but: have you run good ol' Disk Cleanup and Defrag during all this? Theoretically, that should get rid of orphaned files like that .exe.
And not to get carried away, but I had a work  laptop that got totally infected with spyware (some kinda worm) once, and one problem was that it was making bogus clones of dlls and exes (using the original  filenames) that could not be gotten rid of by ordinary means...

My FS9 install is pretty stable, but every now and then I still see odd "Assignment" errors... usually can fix it by re-doing them.

[dyfly]

sounds like a check the box problem. When you config see if you have a box to check.When I Config I had a box to check to save the new settings.

[alanmus]

Hi All.
    Nav, I d/loaded Regiistry Clean, it cleared a few FS9 registry entries, I ran Regedit and deleted every FS9 and Flight Simulator 9 entry in the registry that I found and I deleted the Flight Sim Manager that you mentioned and I have no spyware or viruses ( unless AVG and my 11 antispyware programmes have missed them  ??? )

     Rottydaddy, Hi. Thanks for your input, Clean up and defrag is done everytime I install and/or delete anything.

      Dyfly, Hi, and thanks for your input too! I think I only have to "check a box" when I change the default flight. The realism and assignment settings should "stick" when I hit OK.

       Well folks, I have tried everything that has been suggested (and some that havn't  :)), and nothing seems to work. where do I go from here?

                 Thanks for all your help....Alan

[Hagar]

I'm fresh out of ideas, not that I had many to start with. One question. Is your FS9 still on your G drive?

[frank_carbon]

 First time poster, but been following this thread for a while. Seems all the advice given was excellent, but since we're at wits end I'll toss in my two cents.
 First some good reading. You can do a search here for it here on this site (where I found it), or you can PM me and I'll send you a copy, XP Tweakguide. Also available at tweakguides.com. Even if you don't have XP, or have no interest in "tweaking" your machine (I didn't) there is great info in here about Windows in general. There are also links to a few good utilities (free) that are powerful and devoid of the "magic potion" variety. Since others have mentioned "ghost" file and registry possibilities the version of reg cleaner and instructions for how to use it, and why are in this guide. If you have/had 80 planes, tried then removed others, and your reg cleaner only found a few errant registry entries then it is only a registry "duster".

[frank_carbon]

Sorry for the double, got the dumb thumbs. Anyway, also read the section on spyware/adware and their removers/blockers. Do you really have 10+ of those programs? Sorry I'm not giving any new hints just expanding on the already great advice you've gotten. Also see MS's support database for a "CLEAN install" how to. As a side note, Rana's Flight Sim Manager has never caused me any trouble and I find it to be an excellent tool for many diagnostics. However, files backed up there, if corrupted, are still just that when you go to reinstall;i.e.-corrupted. As much as you may not want to hear it (I know I didn't) manually reentering your aircraft, so you see everything and where it went and how, will still probably be the best way. I still do all my installations this way, following Grumpy's advice, and been trouble free since. And learned alot. Hope this helps, it comes from experience.

[logjam]

I must say that I had exactly the same problem on my AMD 700 PC. Even though I had 1 Gb ram and NVidea 400MX, I couldn't run FS9 at all. Eventually, the problem you are experiencing happened in the FS2K2 I was using. Sorry to have to report, there was no-one able to help. I ended up installing FS9 on my Dell 2.6. I don't have any probs now.

[alanmus]

Hi All.
  Thanks Hagar, frank_carbon and logjam for your replies. I am off to work now I will have a look at your suggestions and reply in more detail later
   I really appreciate everybodys help.
                       Cheers ............Alan