The fsx.exe file is missing from my FSX Steam Edition and despite running a search of my C: drive it doesn't appear anywhere.
When I click on the desktop shortcut to FSX it says "The item 'fsx.exe' that this shortcut refers to has been changed or moved so this shortcut will no longer work properly.
Can someone help with this as I really don't want to have to do a reinstall of FSX SE and probably all my addons as well.

You would only need to do a verify files on Steam. It would replace anything else that might have disappeared at the same time.

Edited June 21, 20214 yr by Reader

To verify your FSX-SE game cache:

1. Load the Steam platform and log into your account
2. Click the Library tab in the menu at the top of the screen
3. Click the List View from the view options on the top right of the screen
4. Right click on Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition to bring up a popup menu
5. Click on Properties from the popup menu to bring up another popup box
6. Click on Local files from the popup box menu
7. Click on Verify integrity of game cache from the Local file options
8. Wait for the progress bar to finish verifying your files. Additional files may download
9. Restart Steam
10. Restart Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition

 

Thank you very much for that tip.  It did the trick, we're flying again.😃  I suspect the last Windows update I did caused the problem.

 

For future reference, fsx.exe can be found at /Steam/steamapps/common/FSX (or FSX-SE if you already have another FSX in the system).  I am glad Verifying Files did the trick.