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DOH! [smacks self in the forehead] :oops: So long as I run the fsx.exe - Shortcut with "Run as administrator" permissions, all is well. So sorry to have wasted your time, Pete. I continue to rue the day I installed my FSX program in the default directory! But alas, I am too far down the path to change it... ^^^I think I'll make that my signature... Thanks again for the prompt reply earlier. P. S. What is "FSUIPC" the acronym for?

Thanks for the quick reply, Pete. Sorry, I should have said that I looked inside MY FSUIPC.ini; the content referred to is from MY .ini. :oops: I left the other programs in the .ini file--the Plan-G line is removed I'm off to look into the log file. Thanks, again NC

Up until today, I had a perfectly good and working installation of FSX (and FSUIPC)--that is until I somehow removed my FSX.bat or some such file and started down the path of recreating it. Along the path to recreating it, I ran across this thread: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/446395-weekend-project-startup-batch-files/. In it, there is a post that says I could use FSUIPC to start and stop programs that I use to supplement my FSX installation. The post made reference to the FSUIPC.ini file, so I looked inside and saw this: [Programs] runif1=ready,C:\Program Files (x86)\NaturalPoint\TrackIR5\TrackIR5.exe runif2=ready,C:\Users\lfeic_000\Desktop\FSX Programs\FSXWX.exe !1=runif3-ready,C:\Fraps\fraps.exe This looked familiar and I thought I understood it, so I thought I could just add another line to add my installation of Plan-G v3.1.1. To this end, I added a line and it looked like this: [Programs] runif1=ready,C:\Program Files (x86)\NaturalPoint\TrackIR5\TrackIR5.exe runif2=ready,C:\Users\lfeic_000\Desktop\FSX Programs\FSXWX.exe !1=runif3-ready,C:\Fraps\fraps.exe runif4=ready,C:\Program Files (x86)\Plan-G v3.1.1\Plan-G3.exe Well, so much for thinking I know what I'm doing, because FSX crashed upon the first attempt to start. I went back into the .ini file and removed what I'd added, but FSX still crashed. So, I ran the Install FSUIPC.exe to reinstall; thinking I'd managed to corrupt something. After dealing with the SimConnect "trust" bug a few times, I am now able to get to the FSX start screen where I can load flights, missions, etc. However, once I initiate a flight, FSX loads the aircraft and airport, but then crashes with the error message: Microsoft Flight Simulator has stopped working A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available. EZdok camera seems to have loaded (an icon appears in the Task Bar), but nothing else. I continue to research what may have happened, but if anyone has any ideas, I'm open to them. Thanks! NoClue