Thanks for comments Dave, greatly appreciated. Yes, I did a system restore straight away. Just a comment on that, the computer man told me that the registry was made corrupt when I tried, in desperation, to restore the system using a restore point back before SP1. This upgrade aparently replaced a lot of the original registry entries,etc(it's all above me!!!). Definately a no no he says. However, this might be helpful to others to act with caution.

Hi Don.I have been having the same sort of trouble with some of my add ons for fsx, Tried to install but always came up with missing files etc, I am in perth also, I was advised that I might have memory problems so sent off to pc shop and they said I had amd changed 2ghz worth.Excited I got home and still could not install my new addons.Level D 767 FSX, so i tried to reinstall my beaverX but that never loaded either.Maybe some sort of virus here in Perth ??Did they just do a complete reinstall from scratch ?Can you find out for me.ThanksBarry CuffRockingham Perth.

>Just wondering if anyone else out there has experienced>problems with downloads from FSD. I've recently had built a>new gaming PC and gone to FSX and in so doing decided to>upgrade the FSD Navajo and Porter to FSX as well as purchase>the Seneca. However, when I extracted them to FSX and and>tried to run these aircraft they all had BMP files missing ie>Navajo 5, Porter and Seneca each 1 .I contacted FSD support>but they claim there is nothing wrong at there end and it is a>problem with my PC...I don't agree because I have purchased>other payware aircraft, scenery etc. and have had no problems>with any of them. I've now downloaded them numerous times>trying all sorts of changes to security, fire wall etc but>just cannot get full downloads. Would appreciate some advice>please and thankyou in anticipation. :-hmmm I haven't downloaded anything from them lately but have in the past without any problems.Check your Windows firewall settings. They open up ports; maybe the ports are not getting opened.

Hi Barry, "Did they just do a complete reinstall from scratch." Because he kept getting the message "cannot find the source" he couldn't do that but had to delete and reload seveal items again before he could get to load FSX again. Took him a full day to resolve it....Sorry I'm not into the technicalities of it all so I could better explain but do hope that you eventually get things sorted out. "virus here in Perth"...never, a beautiful place..spent lot of time there and south of Perth when we caravanned around Oz a couple of years ago. I was born in Dalwallinu. Regards Don

Never used FSD.However I had some problems that I thought were downloads but turned out I didn't have a good copy of "Windows Installer ver. 3.1", if memory serves.Do a search on Microsoft.com and find the latest Windows Installer application, I think it's 3.1Worth a try.Buck