Problems with FSUIPC registration

[Hannes44]

I posted this same as a reply to a similar topic but obviously something went wrong and my reply doesn't show up. I'm sorry if this should be redundant.

After a hardware crash I had to migrate with FS9 to a new computer with Windows 7 64-bit. I copied the modules folder from a backup to the new installation. Then I run the installer for 3.99 and let the program detect the keys for FSUIPC and WideFS. The installer installed without a problem, said everything ok.

After starting FS9 WideFS cannot connect and the modules tap shows with FSUIPC that it is not registered and therefore only working with basic functions, WideFS doesn't connect.

So I installed again, this time I inserted the keys with copy and paste but no better result. Follow the log files:

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Installer for FSUIPC.DLL version 3.99

Looking in registry for FS9.1 install path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\9.1

Parameter"EXE Path"

Not there, so looking in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\9.1

Parameter"EXE Path"

... NOT found! ...

Looking in registry for FS9 install path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\9.0

Parameter"EXE Path"

... >>> OK! FOUND FS9! <<< ...

Looking in registry for FS8 install path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\8.0

Parameter"EXE Path"

Not there, so looking in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\8.0

Parameter"EXE Path"

... NOT found! ...

Looking in registry for FS7 install path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\7.0

Parameter"path"

Not there, so looking in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\7.0

Parameter"path"

... NOT found! ...

Looking in registry for FS6.1 install path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\6.1

Parameter"InstallDir"

Not there, so looking in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\6.1

Parameter"InstallDir"

... NOT found! ...

Looking in registry for CFS2 install path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\2.0

Parameter"EXE Path"

Not there, so looking in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\2.0

Parameter"EXE Path"

... NOT found! ...

Looking in registry for CFS1 install path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\1.0

Parameter"EXE Path"

Not there, so looking in:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Combat Flight Simulator\1.0

Parameter"EXE Path"

... NOT found! ...

===========================================================

INSTALLATION FOR FS9:

EXE Path="D:\Flight Simulator 9"

Checking if there's already a version of FSUIPC installed in:

D:\Flight Simulator 9\Modules\FSUIPC.DLL

... Version 3.990 found.

Okay -- installed FSUIPC into "D:\Flight Simulator 9\Modules\FSUIPC.DLL"

"Modules\FSUIPC Documents" folder already exists.

Now installing additional files into the "Modules\FSUIPC Documents" folder:

Installed "FSUIPC User Guide.pdf" okay

Installed "FSUIPC for Advanced Users.pdf" okay

Installed "FSUIPC History.pdf" okay

Installed "List of FS2004 controls.pdf" okay

Installed "GlobalSign Root.exe" okay

Installed "FSUIPC Lua Library.pdf" okay

Installed "FSUIPC Lua Plug-Ins.pdf" okay

Installed "Lua License.pdf" okay

Installed "Lua Plugins for VRInsight Devices.pdf" okay

Installed "Example LUA plugins.zip" okay

Installed "SIMSAMURAI+FSUIPC+TUTORIAL.pdf" okay

FSUIPC.DLL installed and signature checked out okay!

Deleted GlobalSign Root fix program ... no longer relevant

===========================================================

All installer tasks completed okay!

Registration for FSUIPC and WideFS was successful! (result code 00)

*************** End of Install Log ***************

********* FSUIPC, Version 3.99 by Pete Dowson *********

Running on Windows Version 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2

Verifying Certificate for "D:\Flight Simulator 9\MODULES\FSUIPC.DLL" now ...

SUCCESS! Signature verifies okay!

Running inside FS2004(original release)

User Name="Hans Schobesberger"

User Addr="h.shob@liwest.at"

FSUIPC Key is provided

FSUIPC not user registered

WideFS Key is provided

WIDEFS not user registered, or expired

Module base=61000000

WeatherReadInterval=4

LogOptions=00000001

DebugStatus=51

1763 System time = 17/04/2011 19:26:36

1763 D:\Flight Simulator 9\

1763 System time = 17/04/2011 19:26:36, FS2004 time = 12:00:00 (00:00Z)

225359 C:\Users\Hannes\Documents\Flight Simulator-Dateien\A320 Linz.flt

225671 AIRCRAFT\Project Airbus A320\pa320-cfm56-2.air

4819168 AIRCRAFT\Project Airbus A321-211\pa321-cfm56.air

4840743 C:\Users\Hannes\Documents\Flight Simulator-Dateien\Von der Benutzeroberfläche erzeugter Flug.flt

4841008 Clear All Weather requested: external weather discarded

4841866 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled

4873316 Traffic File #371 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_bmi_su10_aig"

4873362 Traffic File #597 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_austria"

4873362 Traffic File #301 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_aurora airlines_su08"

4873394 Traffic File #104 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_air berlin_su10_aig"

4873425 Traffic File #245 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_amerer air cargo"

4873487 Traffic File #1354 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_singapore airlines cargo_su07"

4873565 Traffic File #872 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_lufthansa_wi08-09_aig"

4873596 Traffic File #1497 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_turkish airlines_su08_aig"

4873628 Traffic File #303 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_austrian airlines group_su10_aig"

4873628 Traffic File #871 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_lufthansa regional_su08_aig"

4873690 Traffic File #887 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_malmoe aviation_su10"

4873752 Traffic File #1423 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_syrianair_su08_aig"

4873799 Traffic File #1188 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_norwegian air shuttle_su08_aig"

4873862 Traffic File #611 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_f900"

4873908 Traffic File #833 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_klm_wi10-11_aig_fs9"

4874002 Traffic File #1546 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_viking airlines_su09_fs9"

4874018 Traffic File #940 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_mil_czech airforce_fs9"

4874080 Traffic File #678 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_germanwings_su10_aig"

4874127 Traffic File #933 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_mil_bundesheer"

4874298 Traffic File #615 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_germany"

4874330 Traffic File #944 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_mil_french airforce"

4874361 Traffic File #636 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_piper archer_world"

4874376 Traffic File #946 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_mil_german airforce diverse"

4874392 Traffic File #638 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_piper_ archer_iii"

4874423 Traffic File #1369 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_skyexpress russia_su10_rats"

4874439 Traffic File #956 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_mil_italian air force tornados_wi06_woai"

4874454 Traffic File #1232 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_petroff air_wi10-11_rats_fs9"

4874501 Traffic File #600 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_beech90"

4874517 Traffic File #608 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_citation c550"

4874532 Traffic File #618 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_htai_payware cessnas"

4874735 Traffic File #637 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_piper warrior_world"

4874766 Traffic File #657 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_ga_ultimate c421c"

4874922 Traffic File #1173 = "scenery\world\scenery\traffic_niki_su10_aig"

5051297 System time = 17/04/2011 20:50:45, FS2004 time = 08:33:19 (06:33Z)

5051297 *** FSUIPC log file being closed

Memory managed: 6 Allocs, 2250 Freed

********* FSUIPC Log file closed ***********

********* WideServer.DLL Log [version 6.78] *********

Blocksize guide = 4096 (double allowed)

Date (dmy): 17/04/11, Time 19:26:37.181: Server name is FLUSI2

251942 WideFS cannot be used until it is Registered through FSUIPC (version 3.44 or later)

5049675 Closing down now ...

Memory managed: Offset records: 0 alloc, 0 free

Read buffer usage: 0 alloc, 0 free, max in session: 0

Write buffer usage: 0 alloc, 0 free, max in session: 0

Throughput maximum achieved: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

Throughput average achieved for complete session: 0 frames/sec, 0 bytes/sec

********* Log file closed *********

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Please help!

[Pete Dowson]

So I installed again, this time I inserted the keys with copy and paste but no better result. Follow the log files

They look okay apart from the Registration not being seen in FSUIPC. I'm wondering if Windows isn't giving the Install_FSUIPC.EXE program the normal elevated privileges it accords installers. Can you re-run the Installer but this time right-click on it and select "Run as Administrator", and re-register once more. Let me know, please. This is rather worrying. I'm suspicious that there is some security setting or maybe a Windows update which causes programs with "install" in their names to no longer be accorded their needed privileges.

Regards

Pete

[Hannes44]

I tried that too, running the install as administrator, same result.

Another information I didn't mention before, because I didn't want to make this too complicated and believed it wouldn't be relevant: I had installed Windows 7 and FS9 on the same computer before but for some unrelated causes FS9 didn't work very well. So I formatted the drives and installed everything anew. The relevant point is I tried to install FSUICP on this first configuration too, and it didn't work at first with the same outcome like now, but then I used the modules tab in FS9 chose FSUICP and registered from inside FS9. That worked ok and I got it registered. But that was an older version of FSUICP. That way is now not possible any more.

[Pete Dowson]

Another information I didn't mention before, because I didn't want to make this too complicated and believed it wouldn't be relevant: I had installed Windows 7 and FS9 on the same computer before but for some unrelated causes FS9 didn't work very well. So I formatted the drives and installed everything anew. The relevant point is I tried to install FSUICP on this first configuration too, and it didn't work at first with the same outcome like now, but then I used the modules tab in FS9 chose FSUICP and registered from inside FS9. That worked ok and I got it registered. But that was an older version of FSUICP. That way is now not possible any more.

That way did actually require FS to be "run as administrator" and then closed and re-run normally, which was awkward and should certainly not be needed. The Installer does actually call upon the EXACT same code inside FSUIPC.DLL to do the job.

I have just received confirmation from another with EXACTLY your problem and using the right-click "run as administrator" with the Installer most certainly worked for him, as it works here -- yes, with Windows 7 too. I am about to revise the Installation instructions to emphasize this. If it is really not working like that on your system I need to know more. Something you are doing is evidently not the same for some reason.

Pete

[Hannes44]

That way did actually require FS to be "run as administrator" and then closed and re-run normally, which was awkward and should certainly not be needed. The Installer does actually call upon the EXACT same code inside FSUIPC.DLL to do the job.

Pete

As I mentioned before I did run the installer as administrator but had the same result, no registration. But just to be sure, I tried it this moment again, didn't work.

[Pete Dowson]

As I mentioned before I did run the installer as administrator but had the same result, no registration. But just to be sure, I tried it this moment again, didn't work.

I think with the stricter ways Windows works these days you can only run something "as administrator" if you are logged on as the PCs administrator. I've just done some tests with a Guest account on my Windows 7 PC and there is no way any program needing installation privileges can be made to run "as administrator" on that without a lot of complicated permission changes in User Accounts beforehand (using the admin account).

I've no idea why this has changed since this time last year, but I suspect it's down to some of the updates Microsoft has been pushing out.

[LATER]

This might help: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11841-run-administrator.html

Let me know, please. This is getting more and more worrying.

Regards

Pete

[Hannes44]

I think with the stricter ways Windows works these days you can only run something "as administrator" if you are logged on as the PCs administrator. I've just done some tests with a Guest account on my Windows 7 PC and there is no way any program needing installation privileges can be made to run "as administrator" on that without a lot of complicated permission changes in User Accounts beforehand (using the admin account).

I've no idea why this has changed since this time last year, but I suspect it's down to some of the updates Microsoft has been pushing out.

[LATER]

This might help: http://www.sevenforu...inistrator.html

Let me know, please. This is getting more and more worrying.

Regards

Pete

I can't use the link you obviously added to your postwhen you edited it, interestingly I don't even see it in the forum, I only see it in the quote for the reply. Please could you post the link again?

Now I can read it, sorry it seems I loaded the forum into the browser, when the message was still loading from your side. I'm trying the diverse methods.

[Hannes44]

Thank you for the link. I tried them nearly all and the most complicated "option five" using the task scheduler to run the install-programm finally did the trick. I hope for you not everybody has to go that winding road to install FSUIPC 3.99

[Pete Dowson]

Thank you for the link. I tried them nearly all and the most complicated "option five" using the task scheduler to run the install-programm finally did the trick. I hope for you not everybody has to go that winding road to install FSUIPC 3.99

There's absolutely no difference in the 3.99 installer to the 3.98 installer, and it's only these last few days such problems have been reported. I really have no idea why. I'm just adding a check in the installer for the needed level of privilege so at least it tells folks up front that it won't work and to "run as administrator" (which so far has certainly worked for all but two users).

Interestingly again, the FSUIPC4 installer is also identical, yet (so far) there have been no similar reports for that at all.

The "option 5" you used is, according to all the technical references I've checked, the very same as simply right-clicking, selecting "run as administrator", then giving the appropriate permissions if UAC is enabled. It is supposed to be just a way of avoiding having to turn off UAC in order to stop the prompts.

It is all very mystifying. I'm starting to suspect that some folks have got something screwed up somewhere inside Windows, maybe one of the automatic updates messing things up. I assume you have automatic updates enabled (it is by default)? Have you installed Windows 7 SP1 by any chance? I've held off on that for now as I've read reports of problems it causes for some applications. Maybe mine is one of them. If you are on Win7 SP1 i shall have to do the update I suppose. :-(

Anyway, when I've got to the bottom of it I shall certainly try to make it easier, but meanwhile I'll have to just refer folks to that link, or reproduce its contents in the Installation guide.

Thanks for getting back about it.

Regards

Pete

[Hannes44]

Yes, I have automatic updates enabled and yes I have SP1 installed (although I did it reluctantly).

[Pete Dowson]

Yes, I have automatic updates enabled and yes I have SP1 installed (although I did it reluctantly).

Okay. Looks like I'm going to have to take the plunge --very very reluctantly!

Thanks,

Pete