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As the title, I've replaced 3 of my old drives with a 2TB single one, trouble is one of the drives I've removed (and subsequently re-formatted) contained my old FSX install, trouble is, my OS (Win7 x64) is still under the impression FSX is still installed but can't un-install it. If I try to re-install, again, it assumes FSX is already installed.

Help!

Yes, next time, I will un-install before I remove the drive that has the program in question on it!

Thanks. 

it is your system registry that is holding you up.

WIN 7 64-- START > (in the search bar type "REGEDIT") >
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Microsoft Games/Flight Simulator/10.0

Rather than muck around in the registry (what about the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key capt. prop?) why don't you try to repair your FSX install instead of re-installing it?

cheers,
Joe

FSX will only write its registry file to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.   I have had to uninstall FS9, as well as X combined a total of 30 times so I know EXACTLY where it is.  Also I had to phone Micro$oft once or twice about the "2 computer" rule.

hii

[quote]FSX will only write its registry file to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.

Problem with registry due to sloppy uninstaller is (usually) easily dealt with the use of CCleaner, automatically and without having to muck around with manual registry editors. It's a freeware and quite the useful tool to keep a computer in tip top shape, pruning the wild tree the registry can sometimes become.