FS9 and Task Manager Process

[Carob 2]

Hello, all.

I'm trying to help someone diagnose a problem on a Win 7 box and am looking for a little help.

It seems all of a sudden when launching FS9 the process appears in the Task Manager but the program itself doesn't actually start.  The first time.  When trying to launch again then it starts and seems to run okay.

If when launching initially, and nothing happens, you can end the process in the Task Manager and try to launch again and the same thing will happen.  Nothing.  Only if the process is running in the Task Manager and opening the program the 2nd time will it actually run.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this before with other programs quite some time ago but can't recall the cause or the solution.

I'm hoping someone here might have an idea.

Thanks!

[Kuax 3]

maybe this will help

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/555861-fs9-on-windows-7-starts-only-on-the-second-attempt/

[clipper759 4]

4 hours ago, Kuax said:

maybe this will help

https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/555861-fs9-on-windows-7-starts-only-on-the-second-attempt/

This solved the problem for me.  As to why this problem seemed to come from nowhere, that only Microsoft knows. 

[Carob 2]

Seemed to work.
Thanks!

Would like to know what happened though.  I don't like running things like this without knowing why.  I took a look at the script but only understand about half of it.