Hi

FSX has been running on the laptop I use, Win 7 for some time, 32 bit.However, following a recent Win 7 update, an issue has developed. FSX opens OK, I can select a mission or free flight or whatevrer and the game launches OK. But, within about 10 to 20 seconds, the screen display disappears to show the desktop and it becomes impossible to get the game back, although it still shows in teh task barThus far, my only solution has been to restore the laptop to an earlier time and that is OK, except of course that windows still wants me to run the update.Has anyone else been having this problem or got any ideas for a fix, please?Edit: Ah, rolling the system back to an earlier restore point didn't work, this time. Polly Polly

Polly,I often have FSX start-up (Vista-64) with the main window minimized to the task bar (reson unknown). I then right-click on it with the mouse (either on Restore or Maximize, I can't remember) and after a few tries get the window to open up.HTH!Cheers,- jahman.

I don't get quite the same options on a right click menu in Win 7, but I can do it via the Task Manager, but it doesn't have the desired effect. Last time I tried it, after reading your reply, the whole laptop froze. /shrugPolly

Found the problem. A process with the name of MobileBroadband.exe, courtesy of a Vodafone dongle. I still don't really understand why, because the Vodafone's software has been there all along while I have been using the laptop, but I have recently come back to the UK after a 2 month absence, so perhaps it was one of their updates to 'give me a better service'.Anyway, job done. Thank you for your imput. :)

OK, glad you were able to solve it.Just curious, how were you able to track down the culprit?Cheers,- jahman.