I just installed airport design editor http://www.airportdesigneditor.co.uk/index.htmland when I go to run fsx now, it tells me "error" Flight simulator was unable to load some program files and will now exit.what happened??? I just flew fine last night?!?!??!This is unbelievablePleas help. I have vista x64 and fsx sp2

Did you ask this at their support forums? This may just be a coincidence, unless you altered some FSX files after install. I can't see this software causing issues. Before you installed you checked the requirements, right? Doing a search on their forums hasn't produced a similar problem. My guess would be to uninstall ADE and see if the issue goes away. If it doesn't, it seems you may have to do a FSX installation repair.

after uninstalling that addon it still gives me this errorthe only solution I see is to uninstall and reinstall fsx??? Theres no way i can do this right now I have too many addons. Someone please help!! I tried registered at that forum but typical the activation email has never arrived in my inbox

it looks like that stupid product UNINSTALLED FSX FOR ME when I ran its uninstaller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW I AM SO AGGREVATED RIGHT NOW and typical their forums wont allow me to post because the activation email is nowhere to be found.THANKS A LOT AIRPORT DESIGN EDITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it looks like that stupid product UNINSTALLED FSX FOR ME when I ran its uninstaller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW I AM SO AGGREVATED RIGHT NOW and typical their forums wont allow me to post because the activation email is nowhere to be found.THANKS A LOT AIRPORT DESIGN EDITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uninstalling ADE would not have uninstalled FSX. As far as your activation email, have you checked you junk mail/spam folder?

I find it highly unlikely that ADE caused this problem on it's own. Although, with computers I guess anything is possible. Not sure why you would have trouble registering, uless you are under 13 years old. ADE does not interact with FSX unless you tell it to. I would be happy to post a question in their forum, but I will need more info from you. I need to know what you did, in what order.Bob

The way the installer was designed on one of the previous versions, if you uninstalled it from whatever folder it went into, it would delete the folder and any of it's contents. All files and sub-folders would be wiped away, whether ADE installed them or not. If the OP installed the program directly into his FSX installation and then uninstalled it... Oh Boy!I don't believe this poorly designed installer/uninstaller is in use with the current version of ADE.

The way the installer was designed on one of the previous versions, if you uninstalled it from whatever folder it went into, it would delete the folder and any of it's contents. All files and sub-folders would be wiped away, whether ADE installed them or not. If the OP installed the program directly into his FSX installation and then uninstalled it... Oh Boy!I don't believe this poorly designed installer/uninstaller is in use with the current version of ADE.

I hope he's not installing ADE into the FSX directory, but instead into it's own seperate directory. Simply installing ADE would not corrupt anything in FSX. Saving airports from ADE could have some effect, but only on the airports he saved.As for the OP, why not simply run Windows System Restore and see if you can restore to a point before you were having problems. May beat trying to reinstall everything.To run it in XP, Start/Run then enter Restore. Pick rstrui.exe from the resulting files and run it. I don't have my Vista laptop in front of me, but would guess it's pretty similar.

I just installed airport design editor http://www.airportdesigneditor.co.uk/index.htmland when I go to run fsx now, it tells me "error" Flight simulator was unable to load some program files and will now exit.what happened??? I just flew fine last night?!?!??!This is unbelievablePleas help. I have vista x64 and fsx sp2

Without givng the exact error message, I don't think anyone could debug your problem.The idea of using a system restore point to "undo" any actions caused by an ADE installation is a good one. This is the first instance of an FSX corruption due to an ADE installation that I have read. Hundreds of people use ADE without problems caused to FSX... but very few of these people are using Vistax64 for airport development. I suspect the problems you experienced were due more to Vistax64 than to anything the ADE installer did. Jon Masterson is a capable programmer, has an good development team, and is an Microsoft-FSX MVP.As far as not being able to register at FSdeveloper.com... you may need an actual email address, not some yahoo or google address to register. Thousands of people use FSDeveloper's forums without problems. And, yes, check your spam folder.Had you checked the developer's website, you would have seen you can contact the developer directly there:http://www.airportdesigneditor.co.uk/Contact.phpI also hope you didn't install ADE to the root FSX folder. That would have been a bad installation location idea for any program.Dick

it looks like that stupid product UNINSTALLED FSX FOR ME when I ran its uninstaller!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW I AM SO AGGREVATED RIGHT NOW and typical their forums wont allow me to post because the activation email is nowhere to be found.THANKS A LOT AIRPORT DESIGN EDITOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's always easier to blame someone else for our own shortcomings. That you are the only person to have such a problem speaks volumes...

It's always easier to blame someone else for our own shortcomings. That you are the only person to have such a problem speaks volumes...

Bill,With due respects, your comments are uninformed and ill concieved. To think that every user has a high level of computer literacy is wrong. Therefore, it should be incumbant upon software designers to make sure that their products operate in a manner that does not harm a system.I just uninstalled my version of ADE (1.37.05). In the uninstallation process it wiped out the entire folder structure where it was installed. 1603 BGL files gone from a folder that was not part of the ADE installation process. 1060 background image files gone from a folder that was not part of the ADE installation process. 1197 .ADE project files gone from a folder that was not part of the ADE installation process. No uninstall program should take out anything that it did not install.If the OP made an uninformed decision to install ADE into the main FSX folder, it still does not excuse a poorly designed uninstall routine wiping out his FSX installation. Geez, I learned 25 years ago "No uninstall program should take out anything that it did not install."Here's hoping the OP likes spending his weekend reinstalling everything. And let's hope the ADE development staff finally fixes this poorly designed uninstall program. There was a posting in their support forums about this issue a few months back. But like here, it was pooh-pooh'd away as inconcievable.Yes, I backed up the lost files prior to the ADE wipeout!

Bill,With due respects, your comments are uninformed and ill concieved. To think that every user has a high level of computer literacy is wrong. Therefore, it should be incumbant upon software designers to make sure that their products operate in a manner that does not harm a system.I just uninstalled my version of ADE (1.37.05). In the uninstallation process it wiped out the entire folder structure where it was installed. 1603 BGL files gone from a folder that was not part of the ADE installation process. 1060 background image files gone from a folder that was not part of the ADE installation process. 1197 .ADE project files gone from a folder that was not part of the ADE installation process. No uninstall program should take out anything that it did not install.If the OP made an uninformed decision to install ADE into the main FSX folder, it still does not excuse a poorly designed uninstall routine wiping out his FSX installation. Geez, I learned 25 years ago "No uninstall program should take out anything that it did not install."Here's hoping the OP likes spending his weekend reinstalling everything. And let's hope the ADE development staff finally fixes this poorly designed uninstall program. There was a posting in their support forums about this issue a few months back. But like here, it was pooh-pooh'd away as inconcievable.Yes, I backed up the lost files prior to the ADE wipeout!

First let me say that I have just been made aware of this post. Clearly we apologize if our installer/uninstaller has caused any problems or loss of data. I did not write the installer/uninstaller so I can only say that a lot of effort went into making sure that the uninstall routine did not remove user data. If it is doing so then this is the first report that we have had.Second ADE has a default install path that the user can change. Again I have not had any previous reports of installing it in the FSX folder structure but clearly we would not have recommended this. I accept the points made above that our uninstaller should not remove user data. I can also see that we should stop users attempting to install in the FSX folder. In our defense we have had over 30,000 downloads of ADE in the past 12 months and I guess a fair proportion of those have made an installation and a number of those uninstalled it. I do not plan to get into a flame war but I do take exception to the comment that we finally get around to fix the poorly designed uninstall program. These are the first reports I have seen and I will make sure that warnings are posted concerning this until such time as we make a new release with an updated installer/uninstaller. I cannot recall seeing a previous post and if I missed it again I apologize. There are multiple ways to contact me and the team if registration on FSDeveloper.com fails (and yes we did have problems with the site yesterday). There is a contact form on the airport design editor web site and my email address is listed on the readme documentation that comes with the program. I doubt anyone would argue that generally I respond to all requests for help.

I just uninstalled ADE from my installation folder "C:\Program Files\FS Design Tools\Airport Design Editor" on a WindowsXp system. Before I did, I actually copied FSX.exe to it's root folder.The uninstallation was quick and uneventful, leaving behind all my personal added content files, including FSX.exe. So I would guess this was primarily an installation problem, not uninstallation.Dick

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14511Note: We do not yet know the version the OP of this thread was working with.This scenario occurred to me almost a year ago. I would have thought it was posted in the Beta Forum? I've put that experience well behind me.

http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14511Note: We do not yet know the version the OP of this thread was working with.This scenario occurred to me almost a year ago. I would have thought it was posted in the Beta Forum? I've put that experience well behind me.

Sorry Lance I did miss that one :( :( :( I have made posts on all my sites warning of the potential for the uninstaller to remove non ADE files and I will make sure the next version does not do this nor allow installation into FSX (or FS9) folders