10 minutes ago, kholt said:

You can relax and breathe.  MSFS reinstalled just fine for me.

Just curious, what exactly do you think I “did” in that other thread?  

Are you a Microsoft fanboi that feels a need to defend them against criticism or comparison to other products?

More maturity please….

I'm quite mature (at least in years), I assure you, AAAND I'm pretty chill and breathing relatively ok I guess.  Good to see it installed, and if I may ask, did MS force you change usernames as Rob wondered, above?

What did you "do"?  You posted a thread title that is false (that MSFS2024 has no weather radar), attracting all the bad-narrative posts as a result, and confusing several users....and then never changing said thread title, nor even posted in the thread after post #1.  It's as if you wanted to post a "bomb" and then leave, which has happened many times here in the last year or so...sorry if we're a little gunshy here.  It's happened so many times.

Now, if you had no intention of being malicious, great, hat's off to you.  It doesn't sound like you are that sort, so that's good.  I *am* weird, but I wasn't personally attacking you, just wanted to point out the confusion and bad things that a thread title can cause.  That one in particular.

No username change was required, and I was back up and running within an hour after repopulating my community folder.  Not a big deal, just quite odd.

I suspect the issue was related to another Windows 11 weirdness which happened shortly prior, which was that rebooting also caused Windows to go through the whole OOBE (Out of Box Experience) process as if the OS had just been installed for the first time, showcasing all the wondrous bounty that Microsoft has bestowed upon me.  I think Windows sometimes does this after a major OS update.  I don't know, but it's happened before more than once on various hosts.  What hasn't happened before is that Xbox purged my one "game" and deleted the community folder.  I have had Xbox lose track of what is installed before, forcing a reinstall of MSFS, but not quite this.

A new PC with AMD 9950X3D and Nvidia RTX 5090 with a relatively clean install of Windows 11 with not much else installed other than MSFS 2024, Pro-Sim A320, Skalarki Profiler for a full A320 hardware cockpit, SayIntentionsAI, ActiveSky, Brunner CLS2Sim..  No cruft or other stuff here.  Pretty simple setup really.  Microsoft is just doing its thing I guess.

8 hours ago, kholt said:

OOBE (Out of Box Experience) process as if the OS had just been installed for the first time

This sounds like a Windows 11 reset which also explains why 2024 vanished Reset your PC - Microsoft Support

Very mysterious if it happened without user interaction.

Exactly, except that a Windows Reset at a minimum uninstalls ALL third party application software.  That didn't happen.  Everything was intact minus the one Xbox app.  I certainly did nothing that requested a reset.

My only theory is that there was a glitch of some sort related to the big update to 25H2 that is being rolled out.  I guess if I really wanted to dive deep on this I could go through my system logs and see exactly when in the last week my system was updated to 25H2, and whether the timeline matches up.  Assuming of course that the system logs weren't wiped clean....

 

From Google AI:

"Failed or interrupted updates: If a Windows Update fails or is interrupted, the system might not properly finalize the changes. This can cause the computer to revert to a state that triggers the OOBE on the next reboot."

Edited October 8, 2025Oct 8 by kholt