I have System Mechanic (SM) installed and have experienced the same problem as Lon Duncombe (“Lon David”) described in his 5/7/12 posting (FS2Crew voice recognition stops working). When the problem occurs, and it has occurred many times, I can normally "recover" from SM's "disabling" of FS2Crew's voice recognition by running Safety Net. Safety Net, a feature of SM, allows you to undo selected SM "registry optimizations". If that doesn't work, I try a System Restore. Only once have I done a Windows re-install to resolve the issue. While the Windows re-install did fix the problem SM apparently created with FS2Crew, and as much as I love FS2Crew, I will never again do a Windows re-install if SM/FS2Crew is the only issue. It's just too time consuming.

 

Unfortunately, neither Safety Net nor System Restore has fixed the latest occurrence of this problem I’ve just encountered. FS2Crew voice recognition no longer works on my system. If anyone has a suggestion of what I might try (short of a Windows re-install), I’m all ears. Otherwise, I guess my next step is to contact Iolo Technologies (publisher of System Mechanic) and see if they’re ever going to resolve this issue (ref. Bryan York’s comment that “System Mechanic damages SAPI in some weird way.”).

 

I would sure like to find a “lasting” solution since I don’t want to give up System Mechanic and I really enjoy FS2Crew for my PMDG J-41, Leonardo Maddog, PMDG 747 & Level-D 767… and hopefully soon PMDG 737NGX.

Whats the difference between using ccleaner and system mechanic seems that both just about does the same, guess the mechanic does abit more and also destroy fscrew2 voice in the process.

 

http://www.toppcfix....r PC for Errors

 

 

http://www.iolo.com/...ystem-mechanic/

 

Just by reading the info I rather be using ccleaner since its a free download, and unless iam missing some thing here about using the system mechanic?

I've spoken to System Mechanic; they're very aware of the issue.

 

If they've fixed it in a recent update, I don't know.

 

Basically System Mechanic damages SAPI in some way shape or form.

 

The result is that FS2Crew Voice will not work, or any other voice program that uses SAPI (Microsoft Speech Recognition API), such as Vox ATC, etc.

 

 

Personally, as someone who knows a little bit about computers, I see little value in these "Cleaners".

 

They muddle with registries, etc., and often do more damage than good.

 

 

I've never used them in my life, and my computer runs very well.

I would NOT use either of these tools, they are for the most part VERY dangerous to your OS environment.

 

System Mechanic is border-line fraud ... they identify problems that ARE NOT problems ... one specific example is that they flag (and try to remove) a key EXE (used for running IIS on your PC) as a virus?? No, it's a core part of Windows OS which allows you to run a web server from your PC. Most of what they report as problems is complete an utter fabrication.

 

STAY FAR AWAY from System Mechanic and Registry cleaners ... run, don't hide

I would NOT use either of these tools, they are for the most part VERY dangerous to your OS environment.

 

System Mechanic is border-line fraud ... they identify problems that ARE NOT problems ... one specific example is that they flag (and try to remove) a key EXE (used for running IIS on your PC) as a virus?? No, it's a core part of Windows OS which allows you to run a web server from your PC. Most of what they report as problems is complete an utter fabrication.

 

STAY FAR AWAY from System Mechanic and Registry cleaners ... run, don't hide

 

 

Exactly, if people want a clean system, just don't download every piece of garbage ware floating around the internet.

 

Be selective in what you install on your computer... and stay away from all the Trojan/virus infected stuff floating around the Torrent sites.

I've never gone to a Torrent site ... I've had plenty of people try to point me there, but I would NOT touch a Torrent site ever, that's like asking for a virus, or worse yet a data logging tools that will install and monitor EVERY single keystroke you make (including your credit card number, soc sec number, etc. etc.).

 

If I see anyone condoning piracy -- aka THEFT -- I pretty much go after them in every way possible -- I don't have many things that will "set me off", but people advocating Piracy will trigger it.

 

Anyway, these so called tools to "fix your OS" are definitely to be avoided at all costs ... unless it comes from Microsoft and is digitally signed by a valid CA, stay away from them.

Exactly, I checked some pirated FS2Crew stuff available on those illegal sites. The software is modified and loaded with spyware, viruses, you name it.

Thanks, guys. I’ve come to a similar conclusion… System Mechanic will no longer be a part of my system. This comes up at a timely juncture as I’m about to do my first PC build, sans System Mechanic.

To Byork- I have, unfortunately, used System Mechanic before they put their registry rollback feature in place, so I have no reset point to go back to.

 

I do have a question about SAPI - my speech recognition program does work, I can set up my microphone and run my computer using the built-in Microsoft system, so that is not damaged, but the voice button will not come on and stay on in FS2 Crew. My question is, doesn't the voice control program use SAPI?

 

I did notice that FS2Crew installs Speech SDK 5.1 but a check of the Microsoft website says that System 7 (which I am using) is built with Speech SDK 5.4. Might that be creating a conflict? I'd really love to get FS2 crew working, but if I have to reinstall System 7 to do that, and if that means starting over with the installation of FSX and all the add-ons I've built up over the years, it's just not going to happen. I'm open to suggestions.

 

Thanks,

 

J. Friedland

Hi Justin,

 

FS2Crew doesn't install any speech components.  Other voice recognition programs might.  I don't know.  I can't speak for them.

 

XP users are directed to manually download SAPI from Microsoft if they don't already have it.  Win 7 and 8 users have SAPI built in.

 

FS2Crew voice control does use SAPI, but System Mechanic damages SAPI for use with 3rd party users.

 

FS2Crew isn't the only one hit.  VOX ATC and others that use SAPI are nailed as well unfortunately.

 

 

I've discussed this with System Mechanic, they acknowledge the issue, but they don't seem to ever fix it.

 

I'm afraid the only solution is to re-install your OS I'm afraid.  Or try a system repair or roll back.

 

You should have all your add-ons backup on a disk, so it shouldn't be too much of a headache.  

 

 

As mentioned before, I encourage people to never run these registry repair/system clean up tools.  They often do more harm then good, and you don't need them.