3 hours ago, PIC007 said:

Tony

I know this should not have a darn thing to do with the sim...but are you running the latest video drivers?

Yes mate.  Been on them for a cuppla weeks now.  I have, however, just rolled back to the previous version and there is no change.

13 hours ago, himmelhorse said:

"What the heck is wrong"  .... that was my question LOL 

Sorry Tony I read these tales of woe am as perplexed as you are that you are going thru this as I've never had anything like it but as I say it's default everything for me as there is no need to divide everything to different drives anymore--I fortunately have enough drive space for everything and then some on one simple stick so easy for me to do. Good luck sorting it all out sounds like a waste of time.  Someday treat yourself to a single-drive solution there is no downside to this anymore including OS.

It's a long shot, but there is a "Repair" option if you go into the Windows settings "Apps" page. Select MSFS and then click advanced options. The repair option says it save your data. It might reset a flag or something to get you out of this mess.

Disclaimer: I have never personally tried said repair option. As always, click buttons at your own risk. 😉

I am starting to feel that the problem is a very incomplete uninstall and I am simply reinstalling on top of the original problem.

Is there a specific way or method to ensure a complete uninstall and what is it? As previously stated, I have done the startbar/msfs flight simulator/ uninstall method which is feel is actually not doing the job, particularly as it is still there in the start bar 10 minutes later. Following that up with the Drive C/user/username/app data/local/packages/microsoft.flightsimulator, and then deleting everything (I believe that nothing should be there after an uninstall) is not working either. What or where else should I be looking at in order to remove the pesky critter that is causing the problem.

Thanks too, for your kind words everybody.

Regards

Tony

Some update..

Starting on last Sunday I have been compelled to re-install MSFS three times!! And when I today thought a flight would be nice, the sim tried to re-install for 4th time..

I decided this was enough. I have been a GamePass user and I cancelled my pass and am right now re-installing a Steam version. But this was not easy either after all: When I launched from Steam for the first time, a bit over 1GIB was downloaded and then it halted to: Login to Microsoft/X-box account: I tried to write my MS e-mail but couldn't get @-sign from my kb. I discovered some tracks from this week in the directories of my SSD and deleted them. Tried again and again, but couldn't log into my account. Then my saviour (?) was to find a post from SteamCommunity which stated that email sign could be written by Left Alt pressed down typing 64 from numpad and after that releasing Alt and type @-sign.

Now it's over 52GIB already downloaded and everything seems to go well, but what a mess this all has been.. 😞

 

Petteri

On 2/3/2022 at 4:09 PM, petepawn said:

I tried to write my MS e-mail but couldn't get @-sign from my kb

You found a solution, but another old school answer would be to use Character Map, a seemingly forgotten little program in Windows. I have it added to my Taskbar in every PC. Type "Character Map" in Windows search bar or just go to Windows/System32 and it's named as "charmap". Right click and add to taskbar if you wish to keep it handy.