Hi, I have searched the library to no avail so here is my problem. When trying to get into the Scenery Library I get the message "You must have permission to modify the Scenery Library. All Scenery Library Controls have been disabled." OS is Windows 8 64 bit. I have been having some trouble with FSX but thought I had sorted it until I got this message. Could this be anything to do with FSDREAM Team and Virtuali? Grateful any advice. Colin

Are you running FSX as an administrator? Generally, you should be using an administrator account when you want to adjust settings.

As far as I know I am. I am the only user and owner. I right click FSX.exe but there is not facility that says "run as an administrator".

Hmm . . . how did you transfer to Windows 8? Did you install FSX and all of its components from scratch?

^{Hi, FSX is installed on a separate SSD.}

When you bought your computer, was Windows 8 already installed? If not, how did you transfer FSX and all of your add-ons? Did you reinstall from the disks and downloaded installers, or did you reconnect the external hard drive / transfer the folders from Windows 7?

Have continued to chip away at this and now here's the thing. I built my PC and have 2 SSDs and 1 HD which is partitioned. 1 SSD contains the OS which until last week was Windows 7. I then decided to upgrade to Windows 8 (which I quite like at this moment in time!!!) and this was done via a download from MS keeping all my settings etc. This went okay. The other SSD contains FSX and all FSX Add Ons. This was not touched during the upgrade and at the beginning it was fine. The HD contains all other programs, media files, etc. I have had this set up for a long time and it has worked well. I first started to get a problem which as far as I can tell was caused by FSDreamTeam and Virtuali. I eventually tracked this down to Virtuali being "untrusted" as a publisher. How it got to be like that I do not know. Anyway, I changed that and everything was fine until this Scenery Library problem arose. I have shortcuts to my main programs on the taskbar via pop up menus including FSX. Again this has worked well. After your very welcome responses I had one of those moments and decided to look in the main FSX program and at the FSX.exe. I right clicked the exe and lo and behold there was "Run as an Administrator". When I clicked on that FSX ran and I was able to access the Scenery Library as normal. So I then placed a copy of the exe on my Desk Top as a shortcut and was able to run FSX fully by running as an Administrator. However, if I then put that shortcut on my task bar the facility to run as an Administrator disappears. So my question now is, how can I get back to running FSX via a shortcut on my Desk Top or task bar without having to right click and run as an Administrator, which I am totally for this PC to which no one else has access. I do admit to being totally confused by all the permissions and accesses. Regards Colin

Got everything sorted. Must be my age!! Went into Properties of the FSX shortcut and found the box to run as Administrator all the time. Ticked that and everything back to normal for me. Many thanks for help. Colin

You're welcome! Glad you were able to resolve your issue.

 

Have a great year and happy flying!