flying-eddie

Thank you very much Pete for still trying to help me out. In the meantime I've learned a bit more about it. As I could see after doing a search in winsxs, SimConnect consists of 3 files: the dll and an additional cat and manifest file. Only the dll resides in the folder within the winsxs directory, the other two files resides in the winsxs directory itself. But I only deleted the three folders, so I guess since the other files (total of six files, regarding to each folders name) were still there, the installer didn't do anything. I still got the first two folders in my trashcan, the third one I could recover from a shadow file. Now the challenge was to move those three folders each containing one dll back to winsxs. As long as the user "TrustedInstaller" is the owner of winsxs, there is not really much you can do, because you can not give yourself the necessary rights. So I changed the owner typing the following in a admin cmd box: takeown /F winsxs After that I typed: icacls winsxs /grant "Flying Eddie:F" to give full access myself. I verified that TrustedInstaller has still full access though. I could use the GUI to grant full access myself for the three folders. Now I was able to simple move the three folders back into winsxs. What can I say, FSX works as before, not better but it works. I think the most important thing about micro stutters is to keep the hd defragemted anyway, especially when using tools like UT2 with heavy loads. Only one thing is left. I could not change the owner of winsxs back to TrustedInstaller. You cannot select this user when using the GUI to change the owner. I've not yet figured a command to use for this task. Unfortunately there is no "See Also" in the help text of commands like with UNIX. Maybe I should just leave it like that as long as it works. Thank you very much for your kind help. Regards Eddie

Now I got the worst case! I did a complete reinstall of FSX but those 3 Simconnect folder never appeared again. First I saved my installed FSX folder and deleted the one within the Microsoft Games folder. After that I started an installation from scratch to the original path. Finished with this I continued with the Acceleration installation. Anyway the Simconnect folders within the winsxs folder were never installed again. Of course the virgin installation of FSX is running ok, due to nothing is asking for Simconnect. But if I switch over to my old installation, the error appears instantly and UT2 traffic doesn't show up. I don't know what else won't function propperly anymore yet... The folder for Acceleration/SP2 is definitly gone, since I cannot find it within my backup. The other two folders I still have in my trash, but I can't recover them nor can I put them back manually to winsxs due to an right issue. But anyway, maybe my Simconnect files were corrupted since I got error messages even before I started to delete something, in other words, that's why I started to delete... So where can I get a working installation of Simconnect now??? This is essential for many things, right. Need to get some sleep now, it's almost 4 am CET. Any help is truly appreciated! Kind regards Eddie

Thanks for the quick answer! You are absolutely right. Vista has brought a bunch of new problems to us. It is already one year ago that I switched to Vista, and after countless driver updates for my GTX 295 it still doesn't work without crashing at least once a day while using FSX. Just to name one of those never ending stories. Thanks for the very useful hint about the FSX virgin folder thing. I will do it exactly like that. Hopefully I don't need to install the FSGlobal huge load of files anymore. You know, life is short... ;) Have a good one Eddie BTW: I am very graceful for your wonderful Software FSUIPC what I use since many many years.

Hi there, sorry for posting this here, but I cannot post to a fixed thread. Well, I followed the recommended procedure, but I cannot reinstall the Simconnect folder of SP2/Acceleration. After deletion of the folder for SP2/Acceleration I've tried to repair the Acceleration Installation using the original DVD. The repair process finished successfully but the deleted folder was not installed anymore. After that I deinstalled the Acceleration Pack and reinstalled it. The installation finished successfully but still no new folder for Simconnect. So I decided to deinstall the Acceleration Pack again that I can use the SP2.exe for installation. SP2 installed ok, but no folder for simconnect. It seems that this folder is gone forever. I just can't leave it like that since while starting FSX I get the error "This feature requires that {smartassembly} is available on this computer". You should probably advise the reader of the regarding thread, that this could happen. I think I wouldn't have done it if I would have been aware of this risk. Of course I am responsible for my actions myself... Don't know what to do now To reinstall FSX would take me about a month or so, since its very complex. Kind regards Eddie