Can anyone help i have just about given up.

I don't know if it's a good idea to show your key to the world. I always mess up my 000oooo"s

Have you perhaps tried running the installation as 'Administrator'? I've never had to this myself when installing on Win 8 but it could be a problem with the application requiring elevated rights to access parts of the registry which it can't.

 

Also, not sure if you've done so already but I've read that completely disabling UAC in Win 8 definitely benefits FSX. You'll have to do this via the registry and the following guide should be able to help.

 

http://www.eightforums.com/system-security/2434-disable-uac-completely.html

 

Keep in mind though that by doing this you will effectively break all Metro apps (if you use those) and the app store.

As far as I heard, FSX shouldn't be installed in the default Programs directory.

 

I have FSX anyway on a extra SSD, so that doesn't matter in my case.

And I haven't disabled UAC via registry, but have all admin rights.

What I wanted to say is, that disabling UAC via registry (and lossing possibly Metro apps ability) is not necessary for installing and running FSX.

 

 

Installing it as Admin would be a solution and a first try.

And make sure, the DVD is not damaged is the next one (had it myself with obscure errors)

 

And further: you have of course installed FSX before Acceleration Pack?

Have you perhaps tried running the installation as 'Administrator'? I've never had to this myself when installing on Win 8 but it could be a problem with the application requiring elevated rights to access parts of the registry which it can't.

 

Also, not sure if you've done so already but I've read that completely disabling UAC in Win 8 definitely benefits FSX. You'll have to do this via the registry and the following guide should be able to help.

 

http://www.eightforums.com/system-security/2434-disable-uac-completely.html

 

Keep in mind though that b for y doing this you will effectively break all Metro apps (if you use those) and the app store.

Thanks Mike that was handy but still no joy as i hink the problem is seting permisions for the key and windows 8 will not allow me to do so i have tried re setting th permisions in the registry wih no luck what so ever. Bad idea to unistall fsx from windows8. the only reason i did was to try and and get away from x86 programe files.

As far as I heard, FSX shouldn't be installed in the default Programs directory.

 

I have FSX anyway on a extra SSD, so that doesn't matter in my case.

And I haven't disabled UAC via registry, but have all admin rights.

What I wanted to say is, that disabling UAC via registry (and lossing possibly Metro apps ability) is not necessary for installing and running FSX.

 

 

Installing it as Admin would be a solution and a first try.

And make sure, the DVD is not damaged is the next one (had it myself with obscure errors)

 

And further: you have of course installed FSX before Acceleration Pack?

Thanks Guenseli this has all been tried aswell

This is what i think is the problem. The accelerator install can not write to this file. And windows 8 will not let me adjust the permission on it.

this is the problem i think

Fixed i will try and upload how i did his as this will be a real problem.

Fixed i will try and upload how i did his as this will be a real problem.

 

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