Hello, When I try to start FSX, after I click the icon on the desktop, FSX will start to load and the blue screen will come up and when it is done loading and its supposed to bring up like "free flight" or w/e, FSX wont show that screen and will minimize itself to the lower toolbar (beside Start) and I cannot get the start screen to come up. Any ideas?

Any chance you may have deleted whatever plane you were using for the default flight?

Hello, When I try to start FSX, after I click the icon on the desktop, FSX will start to load and the blue screen will come up and when it is done loading and its supposed to bring up like "free flight" or w/e, FSX wont show that screen and will minimize itself to the lower toolbar (beside Start) and I cannot get the start screen to come up. Any ideas?

Try renaming fsx.cfg to fsx.bak and start it again..

Possibly a corrupt logbook? You can find instructions on how to fix.

It is possible that your logbook is corrupt. First of all navigate to your logbook.bin file and rename it to logbook.bin.old. Fire up FSX (FSX will attempt to create a new logbook on restart). If FSX starts without the hang/crash, then your original logbook is corrupt. If FSX still hangs/crashes then the logbook is not the culprit and your problem lies somewhere else.On Win7/Vista the file is locate in X:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files. On Win XP X:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\. You can also download a utility from the AVSIM file library called fsxlogrecovery11.zip that can in most instances recover a corrupt logbbook. I would also recommend searching the library for logbookedit-0411062225.zip which will allow you to make edits to the logbook if need be. NEVER use the FSX facilities to correct logbook entries. There is a bug with it and if you edit anything other than the last flight it WILL corrupt your logbook.Regards,Bob