My favorite for several years now:

http://wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter_free.htm

I use "Snapshot":

http://www.simviation.com/fsxutilities1.htm  (Bottom of page)

It works in Vista, so it should also work in Win7, from what I understand.

Wonderful! So many choices! My thanks to everyone.

That's weird.  It's on page 1 of the utilities page in the "Downloads"

Let's try this one:

http://www.simviation.com/simviation/static.php?ID=200&page=1

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hhomebrewer wrote on Sep 6^th, 2010 at 1:19pm:

The one from the simviation downloads works great. I had no problem with it-- and that's saying something! Thanks, Boikat.

So, have you figured out how to make the Merlin work under 7? It won't execute for me. I have the thumbnails but when I select to fly it, FS goes into some sort of "FS 2004 is not working..." mode. I think I may be having problems with the Sounds.dll folder/files. I am not sure I need to drop the entire folder into the Sounds.dll folder, or if I need to drop individual files into the Sounds.dll folder. I'm kinda busy now; have to do it later.

Possibly the best screenshot capturing tool is the PrtScn Key.  I've always used it. May be harder. but it allows me to edit the screenshot instantly when i paste it in my photo editing software.

hhomebrewer wrote on Sep 6^th, 2010 at 11:31pm:

It will only take a couple of minutes & should fix your problem. It's perfectly painless. Trust me.

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I don't have Win 7, so I have no idea what the problem could be.  For fs9, you don't need a thumbnail in the texture folder, so that's not the problem.

Your conversation regarding the Merlin has peaked my interest.

Tried to search back to the original post without luck to find a link to the aircraft in question.

Would one of you please post a link to it?

Boikat wrote on Sep 8^th, 2010 at 10:53pm:


Thanks -

Just installed it and took it for a quick spin - what a hoot!!

I have the GaugeSound.dll in my main Flight Simulator folder only (it has been there for ages) and it works properly.

Anyway, the Merlin worked just fine for me and I expect to fly her quite often now.

Hagar wrote on Sep 9^th, 2010 at 10:17am:

Oh, I believe you, Hagar. You know much more about this stuff than I do. A year or so ago, I could download and install a model in just a few minutes. They always worked. Then my custom machine (below) developed problems and I set it aside for about seven months. I used an older machine while my big one was down. During that time, I forgot how to install planes. My new machine has Win 7 on it. I had XP on it before the repairs. The smaller, old one has XP. I've just forgotten everything I knew how to do to install a plane. My time is limited now, so it takes me a while to get around to gettin' things done.

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*PS. I note you have Windows 7 64-bit. The default location for FS9 is C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9

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I would hope that he did some research first and heeded the advice of many to not install FS under Program files in Win 7. 

Anything installed there is subject to the all of the permission and security checks of Win 7 - which can be most frustrating and cause FS or associated utilities to fail.

Experienced users now seem united in their recommendation to install it under something like C:\FSGames.

So, did you try my advice & did it fix your problem? You have no idea how frustrating this is.

Opa wrote on Sep 12^th, 2010 at 7:30pm:

I smack any malware and viruses nightly with MalwareBytes, followed up with a Glary Utilities chaser. I have NOD-32 on constant guard for viruses. I update Windows every other Tuesday. Got it set to do it automatically. Since I got Windows 7 and NOD-32, I have had very, very little trouble with bad stuff. It's a great OS. Beats XP all to hell. I never used Vista because of how poor people said it was, so I can't speak to that OS. But this 7 is great-- worth the $140 it cost.

No, Hagar, I have still not done the Sounds thing. I'm lazier than the day is long today. A friend whom I cannot stand has not bothered me for two weekends, and I am enjoying not seeing or hearing from him. I'm reloading ammo, something I love to do. It's sunny and warm here. The blazin' hot days are behind us. I've got a 22-ounce bottle of smoked Porter in the icebox. Life is good. I'm taking it easy...

microlight wrote on Sep 13^th, 2010 at 5:24pm:
I have Fraps on, but use the Snipping tool for stopped pictures. How do you use Fraps for screenies? Thanks.

I can't believe that us mods let this one sit in fs2004 for so long without noticing that it had nothing directly to do with fs2004.  Sigh........ I'm gettin' old.  Can't see the forrest for the trees.   

best,

...................john