How many instances of simconnect should be in my Winsxs?

[lawndartleo]

How many instances of simconnect should be in my Winsxs folder?   One or three?  I may have let somebody lead me down the primrose path of FSX destruction.

 

FSX Deluxe with Acceleration installed if that matters.

 

I'm thinking there are supposed to be three instances, each installed by.... rtm, sp1 and sp2/accel respectively.

 

 

 

[Pete Dowson]

How many instances of simconnect should be in my Winsxs folder?   One or three?  I may have let somebody lead me down the primrose path of FSX destruction.

 

FSX Deluxe with Acceleration installed if that matters.

 

I'm thinking there are supposed to be three instances, each installed by.... rtm, sp1 and sp2/accel respectively.

 

Correct. But only once instance is used by each SimConnect client. FSUIPC4 chooses the latest which it can find -- SP2/Accel if there. But many programs are written specifically to interface to one -- quite often the SP1 version.

 

If you've deleted them from the WinSxS folder it shouldn't be a problem if you've not messed with the Registry too. Just go find the Core Utilities folder in the FSX SDK. All three SimConnect msi files should be there somewhere -- the older ones in "legacy" folders or something similar. If you run those then hopefully it will reinstall them.

 

It SimConnect is really and truly hosed i've found it's a Windows re-install job, especialliy with Vista or later. I seem to remember that it was just about possible to sort it by registry editing etc in Win XP.

 

Regards

Pete

[lawndartleo]

On the bright side, I've learned a few things about ownership and permissions. I don't recall that I went registry hunting. I know that is usually the quickest route to digital damnation. I'll give the disks a spin and hope the installers are there. I have the folders I yanked but something tells me reinstall is the prudent choice of action.