With Windows 7 we had to install FS9 and FSX using a procedure that was not like installing them on to other Windows platform.you know like creating a folder outside of the MSGame folder and installing it there.

 

So with that in mind does installing the above programs in to W8 require something different than place the disk in to the DVD drive and click away.

 

Thanks

 

Randy

No. Nothing different.

Use the Win 7 method (which I recommend for all platforms).

 

scott s.

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Whatever happened to the halycon days of WIndows XP when questions and problems of this nature just didn't exist?

 

David

Scott. Do you think it might be helpful to tell everyone exactly what the Win 7 method is? I don't recall doing anything different on Win7 when installing FSX.

Scott. Do you think it might be helpful to tell everyone exactly what the Win 7 method is? I don't recall doing anything different on Win7 when installing FSX.

Only thing I can think of is don't install it in the default Program Files directory. Other than that, I don't know, either.

So where does the folder go and under what name? Still in program files i guess and call it FS 9 perhaps?

Only thing I can think of is don't install it in the default Program Files directory. Other than that, I don't know, either.

 

I've always installed FS9 into the Program Files directory. Just change the permissions to the sim's folders and files - simple!

 

David

Did you mean Program Files (x86) folder?

Whatever happened to the halycon days of WIndows XP when questions and problems of this nature just didn't exist?

 

?

 

Whilst the questions and problems may not have existed, I know a good number of simmers who loaded FS9 outside of the default Program Files location. I, for one, had FS9 running very nicely for 7+ years on an external HD in its own dedicated Flight Simulator 9 folder.

 

Dorian

I've always installed FS9 into the Program Files directory. Just change the permissions to the sim's folders and files - simple!

 

David

 

David's right though, the only thing about the default install directory is it's in the Program Files folder which does not have full access rights, all you need do is right click on the FSX folder and add modify and write permissions to the Users group, but then only needed because some addons make read/write files there which is a mistake in the first place. But you can install it in C:\FSX (or D:\FSX if you have a dedicated drive) which keeps the foldernames short and makes the files read/write.

Scott. Do you think it might be helpful to tell everyone exactly what the Win 7 method is? I don't recall doing anything different on Win7 when installing FSX.

 

This:

 

With Windows 7 we had to install FS9 and FSX using a procedure that was not like installing them on to other Windows platform.you know like creating a folder outside of the MSGame folder and installing it there.

 

Installing to your own directory/folder, rather than accepting default, which I did in XP, Win98, etc.

 

David's right though, the only thing about the default install directory is it's in the Program Files folder which does not have full access rights, all you need do is right click on the FSX folder and add modify and write permissions to the Users group, but then only needed because some addons make read/write files there which is a mistake in the first place. But you can install it in C:\FSX (or D:\FSX if you have a dedicated drive) which keeps the foldernames short and makes the files read/write.

 

Agreed, although somewhere I got the impression you first have to take ownership of the folder, but maybe not.

 

scott s.

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I have always installed all my programs to default; "Program Files" in each version of Windows.

With full Windows access, I have never had any problems, and the advantage is, if the program does not come with its own un-installer, it can be completely un-installed/removed, using the Windows Control Panel: Add-/Remove Programs!

 

..sorted!

 

Paul... :Big Grin: ...!

Paul,

 

I thought that folder (Program Files) was intended for 64 bit applications?

..you first have to take ownership of the folder...

 

No, not the program files folders.

 

Yes, on a 64bit o/s "C:\Program Files (x86)" is for 32bit installs (o/s takes care of naming), leaves the "C:\Program Files" folder for true 64bit apps. On a 32bit o/s there is only "C:\Program Files".

 

...notice also the Wow6432Node section in the registry for handling 32bit apps on Win(64)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\microsoft games\flight simulator\10.0