Hi guys, so booted up FSX some night ago, was going to do a short trip, realized my joystick was giving trouble again(wiring issues) therefore i had no controls and decided not to fly again since the joystick needs re wiring and soldering. So I clicked the X on the top right hand corner, the prompt came up to exit and I clicked yes. Done this many times over the pass 10 years and no issues. Based on research doing such can cause a bug or error in the logbook.bin file which leads to the sim not responding on the splash screen forever. What I did I opened the resource manager and saw nothing, I installed the logbook recovery tool, never worked, tried colleagues logbook files still didn't work, cleared the scenery data cfg, removed the last aircraft I used, cleared the fsx.cfg file and still nothing. I have not viewed the CTD file yet for any other help but if there is a helpful chapter I can look at please let me know.
What am I to do now because I really do not want to have to fully delete FSX whipping it clean no remanence and having to reinstall(tired of doing this over the years also lol). I have to much addons and personal mods I don't want to back up because of the time it will take. Any advice appreciated thanks.