Those little .cfg meanies!!

[aerpilot]

This is a bit of a standard question and I've tried the standards suggestions but....
Have installed Fs2004 , changed the settings to see hidden files, tried opening with wordpad but I still cannot find the .cfg files for aircfaft or sound (which is current adjustment I need to make to incorporate a 727 engine sound scheme)
Please help someone?

Thanks Muchly....

[Saitek]

Most aircraft folder themselves have these sub folders: model, panel, sound and texture. Your sound CFG file will be in the sound folder.

[Hagar]

You can open CFG files by right-clicking on them & selecting Open With. Choose Notepad from the list of programs. Not Wordpad which could cause complications.

Associate CFG files with Notepad if you wish by checking the "Always use this program ..." box. Then a double-click on the file will automatically open it in the selected program. This doesn't prevent it being opened in other programs. I believe some other programs like M$ Office use the CFG format now so you might not wish to do this.

PS. I'm not familiar with WinXP so don't know if it's the same as Win98/Me. Try disabling the "Hide file extensions for known file types" option from Windows Explorer/Tools/FolderOptions/View. Check out my Working with Windows article for this & other useful tips. http://www.simviation.com/lair/windows.htm

[cstrut]

Dude that's easy. open your FS9 root (program files/microsoft games/flight simulator 9) and go into the aircraft folder. Now take the sound folder that contains the sound upgrade or different sound set and paste it into the folder (737, wright flyer, bell 206, etc...) the message that comes up is would you like to over write file answer yes to all and the new sounds will write into their proper place and the sound.cfg will over write the current sound cfg for the aircraft. Easy huh! the only problem with this method is that if there is a sound  (or bmp if changing panel folders) that is not represented in the new folder it will not get over written and it will not get erased. This doesn't mean that it will start to play or show up everywhere at unusual time no,no,no it simply means that if you get into the habit of dropping in new files all the time you will effectively be using up disk space on left over bits of files that nothing is using. It really does add up quik too. If you choose to transfer a really cool looking panel from one plane to another you can do the same thing but be careful not to put a panel from a twin engine aircraft into a four engine aircraft. Some issues arise, I know I couldn't bewlieve it either, boy did the FAA ever get pissed at me that day.