Just done a clean install of windows 7 and looking to make it run for fsx? Looked at nicks guide seems alot of work and an amateur like me will prob mess it up lol anyone know anything good?

For w7 it's generally excepted the way to go is to install it outside program files in the main os directory, I installed it on a second hard drive to a directory 1FSX, just to make it abit easy to access.

Dependind on which edition your installing you will need to reboot and restart fsx at each stage.

Bob

I have W7 64bit on my i5 4GB laptop. I dropped the UAC settings right down & installed FS9 (2x versions) FSX (dumped in favour of P3D) & P3D in their default directories.

NEVER a problem or issue. Methinks it's an urban legend that you gotta use a different directory. 

UAC is useless & just to be safe, always run as admin.

BTW, I'm the librarian at our virtual club & must have installed the sims in excess of 50 times on our members PC's, never an issue!

Yup, install, reboot, defrag, use CCleaner & Glarys utilities to clean up afterwards. Reboot again.. Perfection!

UAC, windows defender and DEP are disabled what else can i disable to make windows more optimal?

 

I'm running 64 bit

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