Help - Lost default gauges

[garymbuska]

Woody Take my advice and trash the gauge cleaner program.
Every one I have seen does not work right they are bad about removing .cab files because the program thinks they are a unused gauge.
I always make a unique folder within the gauge folder for a new plane and put all of the gauges in that folder that way if I do not want it I just remove the folder and the gauges are gone. But it does take a little extra line in your aircraft cfg file to let FS know where to look for the gauges at. If you forget to put this line in your cfg file your cockpit will be void off gauges that are not default gauges.

[Hagar]

I always make a unique folder within the gauge folder for a new plane and put all of the gauges in that folder that way if I do not want it I just remove the folder and the gauges are gone. But it does take a little extra line in your aircraft cfg file to let FS know where to look for the gauges at. If you forget to put this line in your cfg file your cockpit will be void off gauges that are not default gauges.

That sounds a tad complicated. There's a much easier & quicker method. Extra 3rd party gauges will display (in FS9 Only) if you paste them into the Panel folder of the aircraft they came with. This way the panel will work so can you check it out in FS9. If you decide to keep the aircraft transfer them to the FS9\Gauges folder. If you decide not to keep it simply delete the aircraft complete with the gauges.

PS. Look what I found in the default DC-3 Panel folder.

[garymbuska]

Oops my mistake. What Hagar said is what I meant to say. That is what happens when you are at work and dont have excess to your system I was trying to rember how I did it and thought I was right but after reading Haggars comment I realize I was not correct. Sorry about that