Running Win 7/64 with FSX SE, and of course every other add-on known to man. I recently installed the A2A Comanche, the Flight1 GTN750, and a whole bunch of ORBX Alaska scenery. Had a problem with Aivlasoft EFB, so I uninstalled/reinstalled it, and in the process, I went to launch PFPX to get some data from it.

 

My Taskbar icon was a generic cube instead of the familiar globe, and when I clicked on it, the message said the shortcut wasn't valid. Uh-oh! Went to the Windows start menu - not there! Opened Windows Explorer, couldn't even find th right directory. Did a search of my entire computer, and all I found was the installation file.

 

So I went and downloaded the current version, and tried to install it. Message said I had to uninstall it first. Went to the Control Panel, and there was nothing to uninstall. Tried the update, and it said I had to have PFPX installed first. So PFPX is nowhere on my machine, but I have to remove it!

 

So my final question is this: what's the consequences of doing a search of my registry, and deleting every instance of PFPX? I am not comfortable doing this, but...

 

Any registry experts out there?

As a follow-up, here are all of the registry entires I can find for PFPX, using Regedit.:

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software/Flightsimsoft.com\PFPX\AddOns

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software/Flightsimsoft.com\PFPX\Airline

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software/Flightsimsoft.com\PFPX\Position

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software/Flightsimsoft.com\PFPX\RecentRoutes

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Intellipoint\AppSpecific\PFPX.exe

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft/Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\Audio\PolicyConfig\PropertyStore\3a657db5_0, which has an entry about Harddisk Volume 3 and

a location to the exe file

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\RADAR\HeapLeakDetection\DiagnosedApplications\PFPX.exe

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\PFPX_RASAPI32

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{1A5D2729-4A3B-4CD5-85C8-4896FD44B78D}

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1622759455-950381382-3326698966-1000\Software\FlightSimSoft.com\PFPX

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1622759455-950381382-3326698966-1000\Software\Microsoft\IntelliPoint\AppSpecific\AS_PFPX_UPD_V114.exe

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1622759455-950381382-3326698966-1000\Software\Microsoft\IntelliPoint\AppSpecific\PFPX.exe

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1622759455-950381382-3326698966-1000\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\Audio\PolicyConfig\PropertyStore\3a657db5_0

That is everything I can find in the registry. Does this look like it would be safe to delete (after doing a backup, of course)? I'm skeptical of commercial registry cleaners, and hate to pay $$ to do this. Besides, I have the commercial version of CCleaner, and the registry cleaner hasn't found any of this stuff, despite the fact that there is NO PFPX directory with ANY files in it anywhere on my hard drives.

couldn't  you just made  another  shortcut   for pfpx,  had  a similar  instance   where  one of  my shortcuts  disappeared,  located  the  exe  and  made  another  shortcut  for it  no issues  as of  yet.  Strange how  these  short cuts disappears  now  and  than

The exe file was gone. The entire PFPX folder was gone. I couldn't even uninstall it because it wasn't even in the Uninstall list on Windows. The shortcut was still there, but not the familiar "Globe" and when I clicked on it, it simply said that the program it pointed to no longer existed.

 

After some esoteric registry manipulation (which scared the hell out of me and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone), I got to re-install it and it's now working fine. I have absolutely NO idea what happened...just hope it won't happen again.