After spending an eveningful of pseudo-troubleshooting the Commander installation, and a good part of this morning (admittedly before my morning coffee, thereby forgetting that any activity requiring a modicum of intelligence should NOT be attempted before such), in desperation, I decided to uninstall the model, using the installed uninstaller, which promptly crashed.

In a fart of brilliance, I downloaded and installed the uninstaller provided for in the "Support" board. I carefully saved the new uninstaller to the FSD folder, exactly in the location of, and replacing, the originally installed uninstaller.

"This is not a valid Windows 32 bit application" screamed the warning box!

Of course, I chastized myself, since the new unninstaller was probably set up for the complainant's VISTA setup, and not my own XP setup.

I resigned myself to attempting a reinstall of the model. Successful reinstall

click off the "read me"

Hey, what's that "Find FSD 115 folder box for?".... Hmmm , let me see, right.... click on the Airplanes->FSD 115 okay....
THere's the infamous Load Manager!

In anxious anticipation, I fire up FS-X, choose the Commander..

EGADS! There are actually thumbnails showing up in the screen!

but where's the "visual model could not be displayed" box....

And suddenly, there I am, flying over Friday Harbor in the VC of the Commmander, with all bits and pieces....

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Root Cause Analysis:

PEBKAC issues resolved (this time)

Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

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(aimlessly wanders off to the Cirrus XLS for a Grolsch....)


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Now the big decision when firing up FS-X   Eaglesoft Cirrus XLS, Commander, or one of my contraptions .....