October 21, 200619 yr Does anyone know how to remove FS9 when it is no longer in the add/remove programs list in the control panel? There seems to be no uninstall.exe for it either.Thanks,Jeff Jeff Commercial | Instrument | Multi-Engine Land AMD 5600X, RTX3070, 32MB RAM, 2TB SSD
October 21, 200619 yr Jeff,have you already tried inserting Disc 1 from Flight Simulator 2004 and see if it allows you to do an uninstallation in the setup menu which comes up?Sometimes this works! Good Luck! :) Christian Mohr
October 21, 200619 yr If the "normal" uninstall routines and methods don't work, you'll have to "perform manual surgery".1. In Windows Explorer, delete any and all directories relating to it - in my case, under C:Program FIlesMicrosoft GamesFlight Simulator 2004I just deleted the entire directory.Now for the "fun/bloody" part.2. Using regedit....a. Start>Run then type in regedit (no need for .exe or .bat or anything)b. On my computer, the appropriate entries that must be deleted are found under:...1. HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Microsoft Games>Flight Simulator and ...2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Microsoft Games>Flight SimulatorIn both cases, I'd highlight the Flight Simulator entry in the left hand pane and then hit the DELETE key.3. ALT-X to close regedit.4. Reboot (this ensures that the Registry changes you just made actually go into effect.5. Defrag (probably not absolutely necessary, but you just created a huge gap in "contiguous files" on your disk, so packing the remaining files closely together can't hurt and should gain you some speed.)6. Reboot (probably not necessary, but I always reboot after a defrag - also, this finally ensures that you aren't running on any sort of backup version of the Registry [containing any reference to FS9] the next time you boot up.)All gone. Bye bye.
October 22, 200619 yr Hi,Easier just to use this:http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...Ben-us%3B290301Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development Team Active Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/AirSource Member: http://www.air-source.us/FSEconomy Member:http://www.fseconomy.com/
October 22, 200619 yr A quick look at that link suggests it works solely for MS OFFICE type products. Note I said a quick look. My solution will work with any program that has made a registry entry.YMMV as might your choice of solution.Whatever works.
October 22, 200619 yr Hi,Links have been moved around at MS. The best I could find is this:http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServe...3.mspx?mfr=trueOr a regisrty cleaner that will remove entries.Jimhttp://www.hifisim.com/Active Sky V6 Development Team Active Sky V6 Proud SupporterHiFi Beta TeamRadar Contact Supporter: http://www.jdtllc.com/AirSource Member: http://www.air-source.us/FSEconomy Member:http://www.fseconomy.com/
October 22, 200619 yr Be aware that you should uninstall any addons before removing FS9. If you just delete the FS9 folder and remove the registry entries you may still have a ton of Addon registry entries left behind.Once you have finished (if going the manual route) run a registry cleaning utility (serveral times as some entries are reliant on others an may not be cleaned on initial run of reg utilitiy) to clean out redundant entriesCarlhttp://environments.flight1.net/gepro/GEPRO_BANNER_CARL.JPG
October 22, 200619 yr Author Thanks guys, I removed it, but it was a lot of going in to all the hidden files and directories as well and deleting stuff, then running reg mechanic and seeing that I had over 2000 reg errors after deleting FS9 and all the addons. This time when I reinstall, I'm keeping it simple.Jeff Jeff Commercial | Instrument | Multi-Engine Land AMD 5600X, RTX3070, 32MB RAM, 2TB SSD
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