Oh MAN !! I've just spent 3 evenings setting FS back after a re-format.I've just run Flight Sim Manager which sorted out some Scenery problems but now FS will not start !The splash screen appears for a few seconds then thats it. Zip.I've tried a backup of the scenery config that FSManager created and also tried deleting the FS9 config. Nothing. The only other thing that I did was uninstall the FSPassengers demo. I installed it again incase it removed something important. No good though.Any ideas would be gratefully recieved. Jeez .... Could be 3 evenings down the drain .... :-(Thanks

I don't know whether this is possible (I haven't tried it myself) but see if you can install FS to another directory (keep your original install). If you can, don't add anything and just let it start. If it will, then something's messed up (maybe a registry entry or config file).From there, you can try (if it's possible) migrate all of your add-ons to that new directory and see what happens.

The "hung-at-the-splash-screen" problem can often be fixed with just a reinstall of DirectX 9c.Doug

You can also try deleting the fs9 and scenery.cfgs(or just move 'em somewhere else for a bit). FS will re-create these if they are missing on startup, and my only CTD issue was cleared up by that method.

OK Guys. Last cry for help before I prep for a system rebuild .... As I said in my first post I had tried replacing the .cfg files. One interesting thing I've noticed though.If I move or delete the fs9.cfg FS does not create a new file or rather it does create it but it's a zero K file.SO ...... FS does not populate a new FS9.cfg file to replace the old although it is created. Anyone else come accross this ?