thanks for your reply peter.
Yeah the page file in windows is around 2.2gb, and my 4gig of mem, which xp reads as 3gig, has 95000 left. So when it closes it takes a while for it to finish, I do have the following addons, PMDG747, Radar contact, mytraffic x, Your program+fswide reged , and FSmeteo. FSX is a mem hog, and uses huge resources.
Is there anything I can do to resolve the problem??? Its really a pain resetting these buttons/switches everytime, it doesnt reset anything else the scenery, traffic etc all stay as they were, so does all the control surfaces, weird hey!! Its such a shame, FSX is so good when it works well, but when its bad its bad.
any advice is welcome. :?