I think you should either move the texture file from world/scenery folder to wherever FS9 looks for them or get rid of those two sceneries all together.Jason

Jim sorry to say this but you most likely have tones of viruses hidden on your machine and don't even know it. I hope you don't do any business off of your box. 'SPYBOT' is a free download, I recommend you give it a try and see how much your system has been compromised.The real solution to Mark's concern is making sure you have a virus scan program that doesn't take up allot of resources when running. Norton and McAfee are the worst programs to run along side FS9. As long as you don't venture on the internet during your sim time you should be alright I would guess if you turned them off but I don

I concur, running your PC without any antivirus software installed is something I would never do...especially when always connected to Internet.Another good (and free for personal use) antivirus software is Avast! which is now running on my machine after I uninstalled Symantec Antivirus because of the load that puts on the system - so far I'm very happy with Avast! You can find it if you point your browser to the link below.http://www.avast.com/

>"I tried this filemon. When I run it there was a continious>scrolling list of fileactvivity. But I was not runing any>other programs at that time. How can you find the interesting>entry among all other background activity.">>To check out the results, I turn off capturing (Ctrl+E), and>then scroll through the results to look for errors, etc. Once>done, I turn on capturing again and monitor an activity for a>minute or so then turn capturing off and review. It's>difficult to review the results while the program is running. >You can also save everything and review the results later. >Hope this helps.>Yes but I'm suprised about the numerous file activity when I only use the computer to look at the desktop. What is going on in a idle system?

Hi,Flight sim was running very poorly for me so I took a look at this utility and I'm missing many of the same files you are in your post. I completly removed flightsim and reinstalled it clean.When I ran it clean and with all the defaults I still get the same missing files as well as many other gauge files.Remember this is a very clean install with no tweaking or add-ons. I even use regedit to clean out everything I could find that was FS or add-on releated.Jon

Hello,I looked through this thread for the solution to the "EFFECTS.FX" problem. I could not find a reference to what the source of problem is. Could you tell me how you solved the problem. FS9 just goes on and on looking for either EFFECTS.FX or EFFECTS.CAB. Which scenery or aircraft is requesting this nonexistent file?This has been a very informative thread.ThanksNick

"Jim sorry to say this but you most likely have tones of viruses hidden on your machine and don't even know it. I hope you don't do any business off of your box. 'SPYBOT' is a free download, I recommend you give it a try and see how much your system has been compromised."Thanks Dillon for the advice but I still disagree with your thesis that a "computer will be compromised to a point running FS9 will be a useless effort." Never had that happen and like I said earlier, I don't have an anti-virus program running. Now I do have "Fix-It Utilities" and it has an anti-virus/spyware program built into the Suite but I don't have it turned on. I may run the programs every 2-3 months just out of curosity. The spyware program catches a few cookies but nothing serious and never a virus. I tried the Microsoft Spyware Beta but uninstalled it as it was becoming a nuisance. Never open an attachment unless I know the sender. Only download from trusted sites (like AVSIM). There are many precautions like that you and everyone must take. I'm just wondering how your spyware/anti-virus programs will work when there's a new and undiscovered virus going around the Internet and it gets on your system before they come up with a fix. There have been thousands of systems infected like this even with an anti-virus program running in the background. You're going to get it whether you have an anti-virus program or not if not careful. My recommendations: keep installing the security updates from Microsoft and keep that firewall operating.Respectfully,Jim Young

I've found that FS persistently looks for the odd bgl file thousands of miles away. Renaming that specific bgl file removes the activity.My suspicion is that a bgl can be defective and somehow have coordinates that make it active across the continent.Again, I agree that this tip should be pinned up high in the forum!

Try renaming those two bgl files to xxxxxx.bgl.bak

I think FS9 looks for EFFECTS.CAB when it fails to locate a .fx file. It's like the "file cabinet" of effect files. BUT I can't find a EFFECTS.CAB on my computer, nor could anyone else I asked. I highly doubt it's a generic FS9 file although that's a very logical guess. However, as long as I can make sure there is no missing .fx file in my sim FS9.EXE will not quere for EFFECTS.CAB.I have not noticed FS quering remote BGL files on my computer yet. I downloaded Flightsim Manager 2.8.5 today. It's a very useful tool for checking a lot of things in FS including missing .fx files.And do try Regmon as well. It monitors real time registry activities. Someone here actually noticed that PMDG 747 makes FS9.exe quere infinitely for a missing entry in the registry. And PMDG 737 virtual cockpit make FS9.exe keeps opening and closing two font files non-stop. There was a thread in PMDG forum raising the problem but I believe that thread has been deleted.Jason zhang

I use a program called processinternalsNT that will kill processes that the taskmanager says are system processes and can't stop. Can't find where I got it.I kill smss.exe. Not sure what it does but have not had any problems after I end it. Be carefull though or you will have to do a system reset by pushing the button if you delete the wrong thing. Everything helps.This is a good thread. As someone said, needs to be pinned in the tricks and tips. McDaniel, there is a way but I can't find it right now.Tom ??JimCYWG

Windows is known for doing a lot of "housekeeping"... :-)

Thank you very much for such a quick and informative reply!I will give it a try.Nick

-SNIP->Below is a brief, snap-shot list of some of the files that>fs9.exe can't find:->>C:Program>FilesFS2004aerosoftbalearen-gibraltaribiza_2004TEXTURE.CAB NOT>FOUND Attributes: Error -SNIP->Any suggestions much appreciated>>Gary> I have just been monitoring my system with the file monitor utility and have made the following observations. When FS9 tries to find a file it looks in certain places in a certain order. When it doesn't find a file in location 1, it moves on and looks in location 2, etc. That reference to TEXTURE.CAB is, I believe, just one of those standard locations that FS9 looks for files. If a gau file is specified in a panel.cfg file FS9 firstlooks in the panel folder, then it looks for a CAB folder of the same name as the gauge, then it looks in the main gauges folder. So, I wouldn't worry about that entry too much. There are several other strange, unexplainable entries that I noticed on my system, such as a reference to an aircraft texture folder looking for "texture.cfg"....as faras I know, no such file type is used in FS9. Below that entry Fs9 looks for texture.cab.... I checked the refeneced aircrafts aircraft.cfg file and it looked fine. The texture folder called out was present and that folder contained the required texture bmp's. I have absolutely NO idea what FS9 was looking for but I saw this behavior on a great many refernces to my Ai aircraft. Paul

Dirk,yes, I solved the problem.Go here:http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...ing_type=searchAlex