Hi all,Just bought a new i7 CPU with win7 home premium.As I have a very large collection of scenery both payware and free, not to mention aircraft. I am reluctant to run FSX, but installed FS9.A mate and I have spent all the weekend installing scenery, and have made use of the " Right click in the blank area" fix with some success.But,now we have a problem. Somehow on looking at the scenery library, there are duplicate entry's for the " Fly Tampa" scenery's. Using the "delete Area" button does'nt do anything.On reboot, all is, as before. Manually editing the scenery.cfg or the Newscenery.cfg will not fix it either.Help needed.Regards JohnT

Hi all,Just bought a new i7 CPU with win7 home premium.As I have a very large collection of scenery both payware and free, not to mention aircraft. I am reluctant to run FSX, but installed FS9.A mate and I have spent all the weekend installing scenery, and have made use of the " Right click in the blank area" fix with some success.But,now we have a problem. Somehow on looking at the scenery library, there are duplicate entry's for the " Fly Tampa" scenery's. Using the "delete Area" button does'nt do anything.On reboot, all is, as before. Manually editing the scenery.cfg or the Newscenery.cfg will not fix it either.Help needed.Regards JohnT

Where is FS9 installed ?What do you have UAC set to ?Are you administrator on the computer ?

Hi all,Just bought a new i7 CPU with win7 home premium.As I have a very large collection of scenery both payware and free, not to mention aircraft. I am reluctant to run FSX, but installed FS9.A mate and I have spent all the weekend installing scenery, and have made use of the " Right click in the blank area" fix with some success.But,now we have a problem. Somehow on looking at the scenery library, there are duplicate entry's for the " Fly Tampa" scenery's. Using the "delete Area" button does'nt do anything.On reboot, all is, as before. Manually editing the scenery.cfg or the Newscenery.cfg will not fix it either.Help needed.Regards JohnT

Try Right clicking on the FS9.exe file - then select the Compatibility tab and set it to "run as adminstrator". That is quite different than just being logged on to your computer as adminstrator.Let us know if that helps, please.

When creating FSNavigator's database, if the FSNavDBC program hangs and you restart it you may get multiple instances of a scenery. I usually delete all instances and save a default flight, restart FS9 and manually add the scenery. Might be a quicker way of doing this, but my method works for me! :( Cheers, SLuggy

I'd try FlightSim Manager's Scenery.cfg scanner and fixer. But sometimes manual editing is warranted.

Opa, could you please explain the effect of checking the "Run this program as an administrator" box has on FS9, and how that differs from just giving "full control" through the Security tab? And, exactly when would you recommend the "Run this program as an administrator" box be used? I installed FS9 through Program Files several months ago, before the word got out (and I discovered for myself!) that that path leads to many security pop-ups, and I am wondering now if it would be advisable to check the "Run this program as an administrator" box, instead of giving permission through the Security tab? Or, do you think we should we do both? Thanks for your advice...lee

Opa, could you please explain the effect of checking the "Run this program as an administrator" box has on FS9, and how that differs from just giving "full control" through the Security tab? And, exactly when would you recommend the "Run this program as an administrator" box be used? I installed FS9 through Program Files several months ago, before the word got out (and I discovered for myself!) that that path leads to many security pop-ups, and I am wondering now if it would be advisable to check the "Run this program as an administrator" box, instead of giving permission through the Security tab? Or, do you think we should we do both? Thanks for your advice...lee

Ideally FS should be installed away from Program Files as many now highly recommend - but you have already discovered that.Frankly I do not know the difference between the two approaches you mention as I do not have those issues - mine (both FS2004 and FSX) are installed under C:\FSGames.FS occasionally needs to make "changes" while you are using the "game" so if it has been given "adminstrator" rights, that seems to allow it to work as intended.The same would apply to any utility which makes any kind of change. In my experience they will work "as advertised" if they have adminstrator rights also.I do not pretend to understand the way this works (the technical aspect of it all) but that is my take on the subject.

Thanks for all the replies.FS9 installed on the c:\ drive not in program filesUAC turned offI am the admininistratorHave RC the FS9.exe and set as advisedWell to-night my mate and I resumed our efforts.To summarise :-The FlyTampa issue was resolved by opening the NewScenery.cfg and deleting all of the FlyTampa scenery.We also found that it paid to only run FS9 as administrator and then to only install one scenery at a time. With reboots between additions.Also making copys of the NewScenery.cfg at each occasion. As a few of my old scenery's caused problems and FS would not boot -up, we would then revert back to the last working version. Extremely time consuming, but at least we are moving forward.Regards JohnT

and then to only install one scenery at a time. With reboots between additions

That is a very good tip, also discovered that the hard way. It has to do with how addons add themselves to the scenery library. Some use the new scenery file, as does FS9. Others edit the main scenery file. If you install various sceneries, some of which use one method and others the other (and an isolated addon does it plain incorrect, wrong path, wrong title), then additions to the main file, may get overwritten as you start up FS9, which will use the new scenery file if available.My method, install a scenery, check how it's added to the scenery.cfg file, then either proceed or fire up the sim if neccessary (do this before you add all your AI and aircraft or startup is gonna take ages. If the install is relatively clean, startup should take seconds).And then there's FS Manager. Search the forums for various ways to get it working.