Gavin

Thank you for that explanation. I didn't know that. And now I do 🙂

Same here. For nostalgia's sake. 🙂

I plan to wait a year, let the sim settle in and then see what financial position I'm in with this Covid misery. For now I'm on FSX and Win 7 and it will just have to do. As an aside, I'm old enough to be patient 🙂

How awful. Respect and condolences to his family.

Hi Rafal. Good to see you. Stay healthy mate 🙂

This is the most interesting FS related news I've seen in quite a while. Time to start saving some disposable income 🙂

Best wishes for a full recovery.

Do you know what? The strange thing is that the last few times I have booted FSX up, it just runs. I don't get to do this too often these days. Self-employed with a 15 month old son ;-) I have noticed a few anomalies, such as changes to the settings in my PMDG aircraft. Simple to set back to what I wanted. So for now I'm just going to leave things as they are. If it gets worse, I'll do the whole uninstall/reinstall thing. Thank you all for your help - it is appreciated. Jim - if you feel this thread has run its course and want to lock it, I will fully understand.

Thanks Jim. Looks like the uninstall/reinstall path is the only one left. I would just like to clarify that all my FS software is paid for and legitimate.

Interesting. I wonder if that could be the cause?

I'll give that a go. Thanks.

Just bumping in the hope that someone who missed this last time may see it now and be able to help. If I'm not supposed to do this, please accept my apologies, tell me, and I will not do it again.

Regrettably yes. By the way, I do appreciate you all trying to help.

Thanks. Unfortunately the hotfix link is no longer available. I just get: The page does not exist Sorry, the page you requested was not found. Or am I just being stupid and missing something?

Jim Downloaded and installed the x86 version from the link you kindly provided. I checked and can confirm I have Microsoft.net 2.0 installed. The problem is still there. Exactly the same. FSX will start after five or six attempts - which is the weird thing for me. If I can't run a program because something is missing, why does it run after several attempts to boot up?