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Thanks for the reply Yashigashi: The folders reside in the root C folder. The sharing window displays: "This folder is shared with other people. If you delete this folder, it will no longer be shared. The share names are the same as the folder names, just without the "C:\" Thanks again. RTH

I have three desktops, and two laptops in my home which run Windows 7 home premium. My primary computer with which I have FS9 and FSX installed along with a number of addons has a massive number of folders originated from an unknown source. None of the other computers ever display folders like these. Even after upgrades and reinstallations this scenario has persisted. For example, just picking a couple out of probably hundreds: 30d4a567f3f8del2 or 46f504de209f369eo68c5cafed75ec If I double click on any of these folders they appear to be empty and they display 0bytes. If I try to delete them, they say they are shared? Should I delete them, and if so how do I keep from getting more of them. Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing? They don't seem to affect anything, but are something I have wondered about for a long time. Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Respectfully: RTH

Very Bumpy: I understand what you are saying and see that happen with some aircraft. However, in this case the background noise is not aircraft specific, and is present with default aircraft as well. Disk98 and Stans: Under display options I have moved Aircraft Vehicle Density and Road Vehicles sliders full left. In fact I have tried with all sliders full left and still have the background noise on the ground. ggwertzde: The addon list is just about too long to list but Included is Flight Commander, PP3, Ultimate Traffic, GEX, FEX, Ultimate Terrain, Active Sky Evolution, Rwy Info, ISG FMC and gauges, and a hanger full of third party aircraft. I probably overlooked the culprit in my list. I strongly suspect that you are right and one of these somewhere is the culprit. I know of nothing here I really want to do away with, and it would be a great task to isolate which might be causing the background noise. At some time in the future I will follow your advice and by a process of elimination see if one of these addons is the problem. I am not certain, but reasonably sure that the noise is specific to being on the ground. I did not realize this until I realized that once in the air I was primarily hearing the engine or environment noise that could be turned down with the sliders (Most birds, see Very Bumpy above). Not so on the ground. I probably will just live with this for the time being. By cycling between outside view and cockpit view, the volume of the noise can be reduced or sometimes virtually done away with. If worse comes to worse I can hit the "Q" key to mute everything except communication with PF3 temporarily. Thanks for the suggestions: RTH Edit: For what it is worth, there is no sign of this background noise in FS9.

Thanks for the replies folks: I have tried turning down both ground traffic and ships down to nothing, and the noise continues to be there some of the time at different levels. Happy flying: RTH

Somewhere along the line I have developed background noise that is annoying. I cannot really tell whether it is engines, wind, the environment or something else. Sometimes switching to the outside view and back to the cockpit view reduces the noise for a period at least. I am pretty sure it is coming from FS as pressing the "Q" key silences it. Communication continues with PF3, but all other sound is silenced then. I have tried unchecking all sound options and nothing changes relative to the noise. Engines and communication settings can be set high enough to override the background, but it is still a nuisance and one has to listen carefully to the communication due to the background. Any ideas? RTH

Thanks to il88pp on the FlightSim forum, the problem is solved. The SimObjects folder includes another folder installed by UT called "UT Aircraft". I edited the main section of the fsx.cfg file to include a line item as follows: "SimObjectPaths.6=SimObjects\UT Aircraft". Airline birds are all over the place now both on the ground and in the air. The mystery is why three installation tries with UT did not install this line this time. Without having to do anything after multiple installations over the years it installed in a user friendly manner, but after three tries this time, it was omitted. Happy flying: RTH

For some reason, I am seeing no static or AI airline aircraft in FSX. I have the older version of Ultimate Traffic for FSX which has worked fine for a number of years. I do see the default General Aviation aircraft only. With my aircraft at an KIAD gate, on radar I see 22 aircraft in the air within a 40 mile radius, but all have NXXX numbers and are the GA aircraft. No Heavies at any location I can find. (KIAD, KJFK, KSFO, KORD, etc.) I have tried a bunch of suggestions that have apparently worked for others as posted but have not found what I am doing wrong yet. Examples: Reinstalled UT with a new download by the flightone wrapper. I do not see a way to uninstall it. Help here would be appreciated. Edited my config.file to include "SimObjectsPaths.6=SimObjects\Airplanes\AI Airplanes" (Assume these are just the default GA Aircraft) Removed the Traffic.bgl file Edited the trafficAircraft.utb file to .bgl I turned off all shadow effects in the FSX options, and the sliders are maxed to the right. I have tried virtually turning down everything else in the options except aircraft, along with every variation of settings I can think of. I have older backups of FSX when it was working fine. I have tried renaming and replacing folders and files from the backup that were working fine when they were active to no avail, including the entire world scenery folder, my fsx..cfg file and a number of others. The last thing I tried was to download the AIFP3118 tool as recommended by another post. I have tried to hunt and compile all files as recommended in order to be sure there are no AI aircraft with a FS9 format. However, I am not sure exactly how to use this tool and don't know if that did anything. The manual does a great job of telling what the tool does, but so far I have overlooked anywhere that it tells you plainly how to do it. If someone is proficient with this tool, I would appreciate a step by step tutorial in how to identify these files and be able to remove or correct them. If anyone else has been through this scenario and knows the solution, your help would be greatly appreciate. Respectfully: RTH

Thanks Portia911, will give it a try. RTH

With some aircraft, when the engine is started, the aircraft goes completely crazy flip flopping and wandering all over creation. It almost seems that the prop stays still and the aircraft rotates which may not actually be the case. Bill Lyons J3 Cub and the Commercial Level Simulations Arrow II would be examples. This is not a constant problem. Sometimes the aircraft will startup normally, but I have never been able to isolate the cause, or solution. Has anyone else seen this happen and have any idea what the correction might be? Thanks: RTH

Thanks for the reply Jimmy: Sometimes there are strange things that happen in MSMS. About six years ago, I flew the "Amelia" around the world flight offered with Arick Hohmeyer's L10E Electra which I very much recommend. A lot is offered included Amelia's believed route . On one leg I started to loose barometric pressure in Active Sky Evolution. Finally, I could not maintain altitude and I made an emergency landing at the nearest airport. I then checked the pressures along this route in ASE and found the following: OOGB = 29.91"; OOMS = 29.97"; OPJI = 21.39"; OPOR = 14.98"; OPMK = 0.00"; OPMK = 7.47". The next leg recovered: VADS = 23.91"' VAJB = 29.9".' MSFS weather implementation did not seem to have this problem, only ASE. I have never seen such a thing before or since anywhere else in the world (going back to the old 5" floppy days). Happy flying and thanks again for the reply: RTH

Found the problem! I am afraid it was so simple, I overlooked it. The panel of the aircraft in question had no carb. heat leaver, so no indication as to whether it was applied or not was shown. I found that the "H" key was not activating car. heat in any aircraft although it was assigned in the options>settings>controls>Button/Keys. I have no idea why it no longer had any effect. I deleted it and selected it again for carb. heat and it still did nothing when the "H" key was pressed. I reassigned the "Ctrl" plus "H" selection for Carb. Heat and it worked just fine. My Cessna 195 seems to now be even more sensitive to Carb. icing, but application of heat brings power back normally now. For good measure, I installed a leaver for Carb. Heat in my 195 panels and may do the same for a number of other aircraft. Due to this glitch in MSFS it seems like a good idea to me. I even have had some jets that lost power at altitude and responded to Carb Heat due to this known glitch. Happy Flying: RTH

I have almost 300 file folders on my "C" Drive that have appeared from an unknown source. Name examples: 1a73ede68382b425ae3f2b fee433929e7eb729e7b928ed048482 Dates modified run from June 25, 2014 to January 17, 2015. It is possible that I missed one that may have been earlier, or later, but I believe all are from June, 2014 through January, 2015. I can't wonder if there were earlier which were removed by the same unknown sources. All folders appear to be empty although I did not check all of them. I run two computers side by side. These unknown folders originate on the primary computer in which I run FS9 and FSX. No such files ever show up on the secondary computer. Both computers are running Windows 7 64bit Home Premium. Both are on a home network, so have access to the internet. Seems that long ago I saw posts regarding these folders but I don't seem to locate them now. Can anyone tell me anything about them and is it safe to just go ahead and delete them and is there a way to prevent getting them? It is a bit of a nuisance to have to scroll through them to find active files or folders. Thanks: RTH

Flying the Shakyjake Cessna 195. Flightplan: UKKK BASO1R SULUM LIDNO ATREK MURK1A LUKK. Altitude: Climbing from 6,500 to 8,000 MSL 1. About 20 miles North of SULUM, power fell to near or at Idle power. 2. Assumption (Yea, I know): Carb. Icing. Applied Carb. heat with no affect. 3. Spot View: Smoke trailing aircraft, but no flame displayed. 4. Set up for a forced landing. 5. At about 2,000 MSL, smoke went away in spot view, still no power. 6. Landed in a field, engine continued to run, but no throttle control. 7. Shut the engine down (mixture control) and restarted the engine with no problem. 8. Takeoff and Continued the flight with no problem. Been flying MSFS since the old original 5 inch floppy days and this is a new experience that I have never seen before. In my realism settings, I have the Flight Model General slider full right, all others full left. The only other things checked are the ignore crashes and damage setting in Crashes and Damage, and Display indicated airspeed in Instruments and lights options. I suspect this may be built into the aircraft modeling, but have flown the ShakyJake 195's many times over the years and have never seen this happen. I tried everything I could think of except shutting the engine down while still in the air. Possibly that would have reset everything and a restart would have solved the problem but we may never know. Happy flying! RTH How is that for a little bit of unsuspected realism thrown in?

Time will tell, but thanks to DSHUTT on the LDS 767 FS9 Forum, I think a solution may have been found. I installed the 314.22 Video drivers and I believe that did the trick. Several flights have now been done with the LDS 767 with no problem. Apparently it did not like any of the other drivers I have in my archives or the 340.52 drivers that I have been using up to now. The latest drivers, the 347.25 drivers do not work with my dual video card setup. I loose the third and/or fourth monitors. Happy flying: RTH

Thanks D.J. Yesterday before posting here, I tried to do what you recommended, but goofed up. I apparently looked at support instead of the forum and it said that I needed "Proof_of Purchase_lvld67,htm" out of my "C"\Flight One Software" folder. I have had the LDS 767's both in FS9 and FSX for years, installed multiple times, but never have had that file in the Flight One Software folder although I do have my order no. and key from Flight One.. Choosing to delay trying to sort out a solution, I chose to post here. Ironically, as you recommended, I was able to simply go to the LDS forum and post a copy of this thread just before making this reply. This is no biggie as the bird does fly just fine with no problems in FSX. I do wonder what has happened and what it does not like in FS9 now. I do use Smart Security (NOD32) for my firewall and antivirus which has a known problem for this aircraft in either FS9 or FSX. If not excluded, it will quarantine a dll. which shuts down FS when the LDS 767 is selected. However that dll has been excluded as per the LDS instructions and is no problem now. Thanks for your help. RTH Edit: Are you flying the bird in FSX or FS9? I have no problem in FSX. I may try to sort out how to contact support directly, The installation (Flight One Wrapper) does not install the "Proof" file that is required, nor do I know what they mean by "certificate number" assuming that is the same thing. Installation uses my key and credit number used for the purchase years ago for the Flight One Wrapper installation.

It has been quite a while since I flew it, but when I try my LVLD_B763 in FS9 the following occurs. 1. Start FS9 with the default FS9 Baron at my home airport KMYR. 2. Select the LDS 767. 3. Loads fine with the tips screen appearing. 4. Clicking on any option has results that take forever, (e.g. FMC toggle, OH toggle, switches, etc.) For example, if I try to bring up the FMC, it make take up to two minutes, then it appears. 5. Select another aircraft, and everything is back to normal again. The only other thing that is a bit weird is that I normally choose to hide the task bar at the bottom of my screen. If I move my mouse curser to the bottom of the screen to see the task bar, all Icons appear normally. When I move the curser the taskbar disappears normally as it should, but a garbled bar remains on the bottom of the screen. Back to the bottom, and the taskbar reappears and closes when the curser is moved away, but the garbled bar remains. I then tried not hiding the task bar and never see the garble but strongly suspect it is hiding behind it. I then reduced my FS screen size and never saw the garbled bar again. However all delays remained making flight of this bird impossible. I have a screenshot showing the bar at the bottom, but AVSIM has changed so much that I am afraid I have not figured out how to attach it if that is still permitted. I thought there used to be a tutorial for those with a short memory, but I can't for the life of me find it now. I will post this on the flightsim forum as well hopefully being able to include the screenshot. I deleted the plane along with all associated files and reinstalled it with the Flight One Wrapper and still get the same result. (Did this twice.) This problem appears only in FS9. It flies beautifully in FSX with no sign of a problem. Any ideas? RTH

For a long time, probably since my last system upgrade, I lost sound in my rear speakers for FS9, FSX, and CD music. Over a year ago I made a similar post requesting help to no avail. I am using onboard sound with six Creative speakers. I decided to pursue this issue again this morning and found a solution for my system. If someone has a similar problem, I thought this might possibly be of some help. Situation: 1. I believe everything was always hooped up correctly and the root sound system was working as it should for the following 2 reasons. a. ln the Win7 Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Sound>Advanced>Test provisions, Sound cycles through all six speakers. b. In the RealTek HD Audio Manager Speaker tests, each speaker responds to cycling or manually clicking on each one. c. I have a PlusDeck 2C Tape player installed. To my surprise, all fsix speakers respond beautifully when playing music from a tape. Solution: In the Win7 Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Sound>Enhancements options be sure that the following three options are checked. I don't know which one does the trick, or which ones could be omitted and do not want to touch anything it is now working so well. All speakers respond beautifully in both FS9 and FSX as well when playing a CD now. I. Environment (Checked) II. Equalizer (Checked) III. Room Correction (Checked) No other options are checked at the moment. My system specs are listed in a duplicate post on the flightsim forum. Happy flying: RTH

Thanks for the reply Kevin: On the FlightSim Forum, DJ was kind enough to point out my mistake. Somewhere along the line I lost, or failed to copy all of the content in my A3XX folder. I found an old CD in my backup archives that included everything, and when edited to include the missing content, the gates work now. Unfortunately, my versions of all of the PSS birds are first generation which were supplied before PSS went out of business. Therefore any attempt to reinstall results in an error message telling me that this capability is no longer available. Fortunately, I do have total backups archived as the years progressed and simply copying all of the PSS content works after I do upgrades to either hardware or FS versions. Somehow, either the content was deleted, or I failed to copy all of it the last time I did this. The only thing that did not work properly were the throttle gates. Thankfully conventional throttle control worked. Now I also have the gates recovered. Happy Flying: RTH

Thanks folks: DJ, I replied on flightsim.com after trying your suggestion. So far I am still apparently doing something wrong. RTH

I have the PSS A319, A320, and A321 aircraft still flying in FS9. I really almost always use the ifdg versions aliased to the PSS panels. I also have the PSS A330 and A430, but without the ifdg addons.. The throttles were originally controlled in these birds by keyboard commands for five positions or gates (i.e. Rev, Idle, Cl. FSXMCT, and TO/GA). The number keyboard "-" and "+" keys stepped through these gates. Somewhere long ago, I lost this function and have just used my yoke throttle in the same way I would if the birds were Boeings. I am curious as to why this changed though. I don't know if it is relative to newer operating systems (Win7) or something else. Does anyone else still have these birds and know anything about this issue? Thanks: RTH

I know this is below the dignity of many, but I still have many carry over birds from past FS versions that I love to fly. Some work only in FS9 (Particular favorites, the Dreamfleet Baron and Flight One 727). Others work only in FSX, while some work in both from scratch, and others do with modifications. I fly all of them periodically along with the newer products. One really old contribution among several that I still occasionally find pleasure in flying is the Flight One McDonnell Douglas DC9. This aircraft has autothrottle control that is initiated on the throttle quadrant, but speed settings are set in the Radio Stack panel. A limiting factor is that the settings provisions are only for MACH speed and the minimum setting is 0.50. Unfortunately, this speed is too fast for altitudes below 10,000 ft. MS without being verbally spanked by ATR. Does anyone know of a line item anywhere in the configuration files to reduce this minimum setting? No biggie as autothrottle can be turned off and speed controlled by manual throttle settings, but it would be nice for long approach and holding patterns to be able to let the autopilot control the speed. I have looked at the aircraft.cfg file and am overlooking such a setting if it is there. Respectfully: RTH

It's Back! It has been just over a month since I made this original post. As mentioned, thanks to Ian's suggestion I thought that the Flight1 Repair Tool was the solution. Unfortunately this did not prove to have much longevity. Over the past month FS9 again refused to startup multiple times. Usually, after a computer restart it would startup ok, sometimes requiring two or three computer restarts. This morning the problem became permanent. I could not startup FS9 at all, so I tried the following, restarting the computer after each change: 1. I have a total backup of my computers (Syncback). First I tried replacing my FS9.exe file from the backup. Same problem. 2. Tried replacing my fs9.cfg with the backup. Same problem. 3. As suggested by Steve, deleted my fs9.cfg file and let FS9 rebuild it. Same problem, and it never rebuilt the file. 4. Restored to yesterday morning's restore point where I was still able to startup FS9. Same Problem. 5. As suggested by pschlute, checked for quarantined files, then excluded all of FS9 both in the root folder, and in Application Data. Here a strange thing happened for the first time. When I tried to startup FS9 I got the old error message telling me to install by FS9 disk 4 and try again. I removed the disk, replaced it, and still had the problem. Fortunately, I have two DVD/CD Read/Write drives in the computer. Typically, in one drive I leave the FS9 Disk 4 in one of these drives permanently. I switched the disk to the other drive, and BINGO! FS9 started up. I then switched back to the original drive and not only did FS9 not startup, but the green light stayed lit on the drive and the computer locked up. Restarted the computer (Reset manually). I then could not even get the drive door to open. Manually opened it (The old paperclip routine) and put the disk back in the second drive. Everything seems to work flawlessly now. I feel 99.9% sure that the drive was the problem all alone, and FS9 was never seeing the FS9 disk 4. I do not know why it did not give the error message though. Seems that CD/DVD drives are the hardware weak point in computers. I have replaced a number of them over the years in multiple computers, more than any other type of hardware. Fortunately, they are an inexpensive item. Thanks for the suggestions folks. RTH

Thanks so much for the replies folks: Pschlute: I use NOD32 in Eset Smart Security for my AV and Firewall. Sure nuff, I did have a couple of quarantined files recently as follows:"Operating Memory >> C:\program data\pluginservice\pluginservice.exe" and "Operating Memory >> Program Files (86)\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator9\fltchk3.dll" I restored these, but unfortunately, FS9 would still not start up. One mention of a related item similar to this scenario. I have one aircraft in FS9 that repeatedly is quarantined by NOD32, then stops startup of FS9. ,If I remember correctly, it is the Flight One 727. I restore it, and then can start FS9 and select the 727 until the next time I start over and select that aircraft. NOD32 has an option to restore and exempt from the scan, but it is grayed out for this item. Only restore is available. The exemption worked for the "pluginservice" mentioned above, but did not for the dll.. I then tried your suggestion for executing the Flash One Repair tool in FS9, FS9 then started up three times in a row with no problem. I suspect that this is related to the flight one 727 selection mentioned above and time will tell if that is a solution to remember, and this cures the problem. Thanks for the advice. Steve: I never get the splash screen when I have the problem. The MS green circle rotates for a few seconds indicating something is going on in windows, then nothing. Kiwiflyer45. I tried the earliest restore point that I have, Nov. 9, 2014 which is at least a week before I saw my problem. Then started FS9 once. When I tried again, my problem had returned. Again, thanks folks. Hopefully the Flash One Repair will prove to be the answer. Time will tell. Respectfully: RTH

For the last three or four days, after I start my computer and then try to start FS2004, FS2004 will not start. The little green circle rotates for three or four seconds normally like it is starting up, but then nothing else happens. If I again click on my FS9 execution, the circle appears only for a split second. I discovered that if I restarted my computer, FS9 starts up and performed normally. This morning, FS2004 will not start. FSX has no problem No changes have been made, nor adders or deletions since this scenario began. Has anyone else had this experience and know a cause or solution without repairing or reinstalling FS2004. Thanks: RTH Just shut down the computer and then restarted it (Cold restart). Before what had worked until this morning was just a simple warm restart. FS2004 Started up (after about a dozen computer restart/FS2004 unsuccessful tries). I am puzzled. RTH

The saved MSFS videos are in an ".FSR" format. You Tube does not know how to deal with them, and I am afraid I am brand new to You Tube and don't know how to deal with them either, with the exception of playing them in FSX. I am confused anyway. I don't see the provisions that used to be included with the post or reply windows for image attachments either. In fact, in the screenshot forum I don't even see the old instruction post that was the first pinned post either. The FlightSim Forum does. Time to sleep on it I guess. Happy flying: RTH