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...... So... here I was... flying all day... having fun.... suddenly, FTX Vector went on sale. I bought it. Took 3 hours to download but I had other things to do to keep me entertained while I waited. Next... came time to uninstall Flight1's GEX and UTX 2.1 USA. I used their official uninstallers. No problems. Rebooted. Vector installed. Set my settings. I am ready to go! Fire up P3D..... 'YOU DON'T HAVE PERMISSION TO INSTALL ADD-ONS. CONTACT ADMINISTRATOR AND COMPLETE INSTALL WITH ADMIN RIGHTS' ............... huh? So.... I punched my wall.. because I am tired of stupid crap like this.... but... after I calmed down from my insanity rage.... I mucked around with folder permissions and finally noted P3D was no longer launching in Admin mode. Took control of the ProgramData folder and turned on Admin for P3D. It finally launched. Files updated, rebuilt database. Cool... onward to flying! NOT SO FAST, says P3D... you chump! AHAHAHAH.. You dared to actually use a 3rd party Devs UNINSTALLERS to uninstall a product out of P3D!? HAHAHAHA YOU FOOL! Have a new problem! ....so.. now... whenever I press a keyboard command... P3D lags to a complete freeze for a few seconds then resumes normal operations. EZDOK use to do this to me for no reason. So I thought, "oh no.. don't tell me ChasePlane is going to pull this stupid stunt!?" This is one of the reasons I dumped EZDOK the second ChasePlane become available. So.... I shut ChasePlane off and was happy to report it wasn't ChasePlane but I am unhappy to report that the keyboard press problem is still present. Any key I push... LAG/FREEZE/RESUME. It has driven me to drink. I am literally sitting here with a beer in my hand about to cry. I have rebooted, turned off add-ons... LAG every time I push a key. Simulator is now unusable if I dare to touch the keyboard during a flight. This includes button presses on the joystick mapped to keyboard commands through FSUIPC..... What.. the heck as causing this lag/freeze all of sudden!? -_- That'll teach me to uninstall a product! SUPPLEMENTAL: There was one thing to note. When the uninstaller for UTX 2.1 USA was doing it's thing I got an error message saying it couldn't locate the SCENERY.CFG file to remove it's entries. Sure enough, when I went and looked after the uninstaller was done the entries were still in there with little red ! marks next to them. I removed all of it manually using SceneryConfigurationManager. This was the first sign that trouble was about to begin.... 2 hours now.. and can't figure this out...