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I had the flashing prob, but I'm running vista32. never really found a fix other than starting in full screen mode and staying there, or in windowed. switching just flashed

Didn't See skyvector mentioned either - sectionals and the other charts, and pretty decent flight planning functions as well. I'm still exploring flight myself - Having to learn all new buttons for commands and trying to set up my X52 has been a little frustrating, but the price is definitely right so far!edit - guess I don't fly in HI much - that's the only chart they're missing.... still a good site though...

ok, I'll look. I know UAC is off. it reminds me of that everytime windows starts.It doesn't even put it under program files in the start menu, unlike fs9 so who knows. I'll check it out though thanks.

Sorry if I led on that accel doesn't install - I have no issues with installation and everything goes as it should - I get problems the second I try to run the patched or upgraded FSX.The error message is the same whether I have installed sp1, sp1 + accel, or accel by itself. Again I did a bunch of tests today with the RTM program and it works fine, but I would like to use both my processors. the message I get is " flight simulator was unable to load some program files and will now exit. Please reinstall Flight Simulator to restore or repair the program installation." Is this possibly a dependent program issue? I read somewhere else that anything FS needs should be installed from the original discs......Thanks!

well I tried that, and thanks because it did enable me to get a clean install. FSX works fine by itself again, but same issue when I try to load accel. I suppose I could reformat the drive, but it seems ridiculous to have to go through all that. maybe the accel disc is bad? even though it's only been used 4 times? There has to be a way to find out which files are bad and/or missing I'm sure..........thanks for being so vague, aces.One other little strange thing, and it did this even when the whole installation worked, was that it never installed a shortcut on the desktop, or in the start menu. I had to go to the folder itself...

Well I get the ever-dreaded (and present, so it seems) "FSX can't load some files...etc." message after installing any of the SP's or Acceleration. By itself the program works.This started about a year ago, and I couldn't find a reason for it. I hadn't installed anything recently, etc. Some people have reported success with rebooting and then playing, but that doesn't work for me. I've searched exhaustively through a myriad of forums for maybe that last little something that I haven't tried, and gone step by step through Microsoft's procedure for removal. For now, even though the registry and any and all subfolders that I could find are gone, when I put the install disc in the program still recognizes that it's on the computer. I'm running Vista 32 by the way....I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times over the last few months, but I have FS9 installed and working flawlessly so I usually just give up after trying so much and making absolutely 0 progress. This program worked wonderfully (with acceleration) for about a year and I'm tired of staring at $100 worth of software that has no current value.My first question then would be: Where on earth might I find these "secret files" or whatever they are that are telling the install CD that FSX is still there? If I can at least get that far I'm hoping the rest will fall into place. To recap - there are no FSX folders. The one under user data is gone as well. All registry entries have been removed. Flight1's177 cardinal was the only installed addon and has been removed. Additionally, I did an advanced search for any file with "fsx" in it and deleted everything. I'm not sure what else to look for.Thanks for your time! :)