Incorrect Install Path for Updated FSUIPC

[Biffer]

Hi Pete,

Many thanks for the heads-up about the security problem and your swift reaction to it.

Unfortunately, I'm having a problem installing the updated version, as per the log below:-

Installer for FSUIPC.DLL version 3.999z2

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! <<< ...

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

INSTALLATION FOR FS9:

EXE Path="F:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9"

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

F:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Modules\FSUIPC.DLL

... No previous valid version found.

Failed to place FSUIPC.DLL into folder as "F:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\Modules\FSUIPC.DLL"

Error 3 reported ("The system cannot find the path specified. ")

The reason for this is that some time ago I moved my FS2004 files from my 'C'-drive directly to a much larger external drive - 'F'-drive, i.e., missing out 'Program Files' and 'Microsoft Games' folders (as was suggested on a sim-site, to improve performance). Will I now have to set up these missing files on 'F'-drive and move everything back into them, or is there a way I can manually send them to F:\FS2004\FSUIPC.DLL ?

Cheers!

Biffer

[Andydigital]

You need to fix the registry because you moved FS. Forunately there is a free app available at the Flight1 free file library that will fix it for you via a little program "registry repair tool", you simply point this program to the new location of FS and it will automatically fix the registry for you.

http://www.flight1.c...sp?page=library

[Biffer]

You need to fix the registry because you moved FS. Forunately there is a free app available at the Flight1 free file library that will fix it for you via a little program "registry repair tool", you simply point this program to the new location of FS and it will automatically fix the registry for you.

http://www.flight1.c...sp?page=library

Many thanks, Andy! Worked a treat. I wish all my FS2004 problems were this easy to fix.

Cheers!

Biffer

[SG-19]

Hi folks i'm having the same error message as Biffer, however my FS9 is in the c drive after being moved there after my old computers motherboard fried, luck had it that the drive was undamaged and my FS9 files could be transferred. I have tried the registry repair tool but still get the same error message. Any idea's on what I might be doing wrong.

[Pete Dowson]

Hi folks i'm having the same error message as Biffer, however my FS9 is in the c drive after being moved there after my old computers motherboard fried, luck had it that the drive was undamaged and my FS9 files could be transferred. I have tried the registry repair tool but still get the same error message. Any idea's on what I might be doing wrong.

It sounds like your FS9 installation is more damaged than merely the registry. But I'd need to see the Install log to help.

Regards

Pete

[SG-19]

Ok Pete, not sure where to find the install log, so if you could guide me i'll dig it out asap and get back to you. Many Thanks.

[Pete Dowson]

Ok Pete, not sure where to find the install log, so if you could guide me i'll dig it out asap and get back to you. Many Thanks.

If it couldn't find your FS installation, it would not have been able to save it. You have to save it manually via the File menu on the displayed log, when if prompts you as installed or to find FS9.EXE.

BTW when it did prompt you to find FS9.EXE, did you do so, and what did it then do or show?

Pete

[SG-19]

I start running the registry repair tool, it opens a window and prompts me to locate the FS9.EXE, I find this and high lite it and click open. Another window opens with the following text. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\ successfully added to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\9.0\EXE Path! . I then click OK and the windows close with no other information. Confuses me somewhat to say the least, I must be doing some thing wrong.

[Pete Dowson]

I start running the registry repair tool, it opens a window and prompts me to locate the FS9.EXE, I find this and high lite it and click open. Another window opens with the following text. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\ successfully added to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\9.0\EXE Path! . I then click OK and the windows close with no other information. Confuses me somewhat to say the least, I must be doing some thing wrong.

Sorry, that isn't my installer. That is someone else's program which just repirs the registry pointer to FS9, and it sounds like it did exactly that, successfully. Why are you confused by it? It says it worked. What more would you expect it to do?

Pete

[SG-19]

My mistake got the installers mixed up. this is what i'm getting when I run the FSUIPC 3.999z2 installer.... Installer for FSUIPC.DLL version 3.999z2

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! <<< ...

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

INSTALLATION FOR FS9:

EXE Path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games"

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

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Modules\FSUIPC.DLL

... No previous valid version found.

Failed to place FSUIPC.DLL into folder as "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Modules\FSUIPC.DLL"

Error 3 reported ("The system cannot find the path specified.")........I've tried registry repair but this hasn't helped me. Would a complete reinstall be the answer. :oops: Thanks for the help so far.

[Pete Dowson]

Looking in registry for FS9 install path:

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

Parameter"EXE Path"

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

...

EXE Path="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games"

Right. so this is where you pointed the Registry Repair program to when it wanted to find FS9. Right?

That seems most odd, as usually, if you let FS install itself into its default location it would be in a subfolder below "Microsoft Games", specific to Flight Simulator not all Microsoft Games.

And it is 9.0? You've not applied the essential FS9.1 update which fixes a multitude of bugs?

Failed to place FSUIPC.DLL into folder as "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Modules\FSUIPC.DLL"

Error 3 reported ("The system cannot find the path specified.").......

This definitely means the place you pointed the Registry Repair tool to is incorrect, because it does not contain a Modules subfolder. Since 99% of the FS9 code resides in that folder, FS9 couldn't possibly load and run without it.

It looks to me as if you have pointed to some rogue or extra copy of FS9.EXE which is NOT the one you actually ever use. Maybe you should look at the Properties of the shortcut you use to run FS9 to find out where it really is?

.I've tried registry repair but this hasn't helped me. Would a complete reinstall be the answer. :oops: Thanks for the help so far.

Well, it would work, but if you are able to run FS9 as it is, it shouldn't be necessary. You should get the correct path instated. If there is a rogue FS9.EXE in the folder you pointed the repair tool to, rename or delete it, and re-run the repair to point to the correct FS9.EXE, the one you actually use.

Pete

[SG-19]

OK then, I've made a search and can find no other FS9.EXE anywhere else. I also was not aware of the FS9.1 Update so any info on how to obtain it would be a great help thanks. Incidently the FS9 install was direct from an external drive removed from my dead computer onto a new system, and not from the original disc's. Maybe I should at this stage bite the bullet and do a complete reinstall from the disc's and have the fun of reinstalling all my aircraft and scenery from scratch. :cry:

[Pete Dowson]

OK then, I've made a search and can find no other FS9.EXE anywhere else.

How do you run it? From a shortcut on the desktop? Right click on that and select Properties, and read the path it uses. That path MUST have a Modules subfolder in it, and the path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Modules

does not exist, which means that one and only FS9.EXE you found cannot possibly be the one you are running from! The correct folder has many essential subfolders in,, not just Modules. -- Aircraft, Sound, Scenery, Texture, Gauges, etc etc.

I also was not aware of the FS9.1 Update so any info on how to obtain it would be a great help thanks.

On Microsoft's website I assume. Try Google otherwise. It's many many years since I last installed it. I'm amazed you are still on the original FS9 release!

Regards

Pete

[SG-19]

Hello again it's taken me awhile but I got my problem fixed. What I was advised to do, by an I.T Tech at my local RAF base Which is just next door was this... Rename the Flight Simulator 9, folder as something else ie xxx FS9 xxx, then install from the original disc's FS9 as normal, then start the renamed xxx FS9 xxx, and then shut it down, Then delete not uninstall all the files and folders of the new install of FS9. Then rename xxx FS9 xxx to its original Flight Simulator 9 and run the new FSUIPC installer. Just like magic it installed first time no issue's and i'm up and flying. Thanks again for your earlier help, and I hope this info may of help to yourself and others. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: