Vista update has messed up afcad

[Gringo6]

Short story: Computer crashed and when Vista was reinstalled by "BEST BUY" (along with updates probably), now several of my programs won't work.. I think it is because some security thing has them turned off.

Can somebody tell me where in Vista these security switches are located so I can disable them ?

[Jetranger]

try checkin YOU TUBE for info on vista ?

[garymbuska]

Short story: Computer crashed and when Vista was reinstalled by "BEST BUY" (along with updates probably), now several of my programs won't work.. I think it is because some security thing has them turned off.

Can somebody tell me where in Vista these security switches are located so I can disable them ?

Not necessarily. It depends on how Best buy reinstalled vista. Look closely on your hard drive and see if you see a windows.old file. If so than your problem is that Vista has lost the connection to your program. In other words your registry is missing the entries for the programs that are not working. In a case like this you will have to reinstall the programs that are not working.
If you go to the uninstall section I would bet you do not see the programs that are not working. Any time you reinstall any version of Windows you will have to reinstall all of your programs. Now if they just did a repair than the chances are it only effected a few programs.

[Gringo6]

OK Garymbuska - here's what I have found:

1. Looked at hard drive - no "windows.old" file. Is this good or bad ? I think good but not sure.

2. AFCAD was not listed in the uninstall section. I downloaded a new AFCAD.ZIP and re-installed it. Looks like it may be working now. Will do more testing to see.

3. Aircraft Container Manager was listed but program won't work. So I uninstalled it and tried to reinstall. No joy !
When I run the patch it says "unable to locate Aircraft Container Manager.exe" Have tried to reload from .zip file but so far no luck. Will try to get another copy to see about the missing .exe file.

Well that's 50% maybe so things will look up.

Thanks for help. If you have any more ideas please let me know.

[garymbuska]

OK Garymbuska - here's what I have found:

1. Looked at hard drive - no "windows.old" file. Is this good or bad ? I think good but not sure.

2. AFCAD was not listed in the uninstall section. I downloaded a new AFCAD.ZIP and re-installed it. Looks like it may be working now. Will do more testing to see.

3. Aircraft Container Manager was listed but program won't work. So I uninstalled it and tried to reinstall. No joy !
When I run the patch it says "unable to locate Aircraft Container Manager.exe" Have tried to reload from .zip file but so far no luck. Will try to get another copy to see about the missing .exe file.

Well that's 50% maybe so things will look up.

Thanks for help. If you have any more ideas please let me know.

If you do not see a windows.old file it is possible it was deleted.
The important thing here is to make sure you do not have two window folders also make sure that you do not have two Program file folders.
64 bit systems will have two one called Program files the other called program Files(86)
I am not sure the patch will work in this case you will have to do a complete reinstall of the program
Can you find the file on your hard drive?
One has to remember that a shortcut points to where the file was initially installed at, so if it can not find the file it has either been removed or renamed. Be sure to check out the entire path the short cut uses, as all it takes is for one folder to be changed or removed and you will get that message.
Just right click on the shortcut and select properties and it will show you the path that is being used to find the .EXE file. That is the problem when one does a repair or a reinstall of Windows it causes havoc on any programs that were installed.
If one does a reinstall of windows you will lose all programs on your hard drive the files will still be there but the registry is reset the Window folder is the only folder that gets renamed. Since some programs do not install to the program file folder and make there own folder than the folder will still be there but the restored windows will not see it.
Usually the best thing to do is to remove all old folders and reinstall all of your programs. Your system will not allow you to remove a folder that is needed by the system.
And if one does a repair of windows it actually can be worse because now some programs will work but others will not.
The best thing to do here is to find out what is good and what is bad. Any thing bad do a complete reinstall of that program

I wish you luck I knew it is a pain in the behind.