Hi,

 

I have no complaints about Windows 10 and X=Plane 10. They seem to work fine together.

 

Incidentally, I have X-Plane installed on a separate SSD drive.

No problems what so ever with W10. Works like a charm. To say that W10 is the worst that ever came out of MS is.. wel.. not so true.

Yup... Avoid W10 like the plague.

 

I've tried several times to upgrade to W10, only to fail with a myriad of issues that were only solved by going back to W8.1

 

In my humble opinion, W10 is the worst product to ever come out of Microsoft.

Strongly disagree.....Upgraded from 8.1 to 10, and now to the Anniversary Update...no issues whatsoever...and a great operating system..obviously this is very much system dependent...

Suggestion is to just set "X-Plane.exe" and "X-Plane-32Bit.exe" to run as administrator.

 

X-Plane will then be able to create and edit files wherever they happen to be. Don't even need to disable UAC.

I strongly advice NOT to do this.

X-Plane will only search for this files in its own directory.

When windows placed those files elswhere X-Plane is getting in trouble.

But even when those things do not happen, doing it will cause X-Plane files being stored outside the X-Plane folder wich is not very handy when making a backup of X-Plane anyways.

 

 

 

I strongly advice NOT to do this.

X-Plane will only search for this files in its own directory.

When windows placed those files elswhere X-Plane is getting in trouble.

But even when those things do not happen, doing it will cause X-Plane files being stored outside the X-Plane folder wich is not very handy when making a backup of X-Plane anyways.

 

 

 

 

I am no IT expert but I think this is wrong. X-Plane will always save its files to it's own folder and not anywhere else. The idea of giving the .exe files administrator status is to make sure that the X-Plane folder has the relevant permission to read and write files to itself. Sometime when any folder is copied to another location, the read/write permissions can change making saving files an issue. Feel free to correct me if this is wrong.

I am not an expert too, so lets hope a real expert will tell.

Most important is NOT to install X-Plane under Program-files.

 

Just in its own folder , no matter on wich disk in your computer.
If you do that there is no need for giving the x-plane exe files the administrator status.
I have been using X-Plane onder various Windows versions for many years now and I never had the need to give X-Plane administrator-rights.

 

Place X-Plane in its own folder on one of your harddisks and NEVER place the X-Plane directory in Program-Files.

Place X-Plane in its own folder on one of your harddisks and NEVER place the X-Plane directory in Program-Files.

 

Program Files or every other system folder, no matter which one.

Put the root folder of X-Plane on desktop, on C:\ root, everywhere you want but not in any system folder in order to avoid authorisation issues (yes, you can get them even if you launch the simulator running it as administrator).

I too just did a fresh install of Windows 10, It's fast and X-Plane runs like a dream. Never been better