Hey everyone, love simviation and have been coming here for years and just decided to join. I am posting today because i have recently had an occasion on my windows XP computer where i needed to repair fsx, i put in the disk and it made me re-install. however, when it came to the end of installation, it gave me an error 1722. i found this is a very popular error. i have had flight simulator x original for years with out any problems untill now. i have been fighting error 1722 for two whole months now. The error only allows me to fly for 30 minutes, and no multiplayer. Oh, and very poor graphics. I have tried many online remedy's and this is my final effort before i have to leave fsx forever. I have tried the microsoft correction but it makes no scence to me, whatsoever, the instructions are very unclear at thier website. Please help
thanks in advance.
Kev13479

Although I've never had this particular difficulty, I have just accomplished yet another FSX/Accel/SP2 uninstall/repair/reinstall due to me not being nearly as knowledgeable about fiddling with add-ons as I thought I was. 

Texture and effects files/folders sure are touchy things.  They don't like undereducated types like me sometimes.

If I had a dollar for every fatal error due to an fsx.cfg difficulty, or somethin' similar, I'd have enough for a new truck down payment!

Some I could fix cause I'd had an entire (original) FSX/Accel/SP2 backup on a 1TB external harddrive, some I had to fix by uninstalling/deleting every single FSX related file and reinstalling from scratch.

That's what I'm suggesting for you to do.  Seek out EVERY single FSX related anything in your system and delete it!  Wipe it off the face of your 'puter!  Look in every nook and cranny!!!  Delete (after making copies on a flash/thumb/external drive) every single FSX related add-on you've ever downloaded also.  Don't worry about any payware stuff, most vendors have excellent customer service that will assist with reinstalls/recoveries.....I'm on a first-name basis with a nice lady at Abacus!

I was surprised a few months back to discover that my repair techniques were getting thwarted by a hidden add-on .dll file!  Took me about two weeks to discover what was effin with me.

Then do a reinstall like you never had it to begin with.  Complete with reregistering!  Some say they have had problems with doing a reregister with MS, but I have actually done it, on the same PC and IP address, nine times with zero difficulty.

It would seem to me that something somewhere is derailing your repair effort(s), so it would seem that you need to do what has worked for me in the past........actually very recent past........please excuse me while I go and reinstall FSWC. 

It's the last thing I have to do to get my latest FSX malady cured.

Hope this helps!  Sounds drastic I know, but it seems like you're in the same rut I've climbed out of more than a few times.

Best o' luck to ya!!!!

thanks buddy, ill go ahead and try this out. a little nervous about deleting all my add-ons but whatever, im sure its worth it. ------> about my avatar, thanks. If you go to Yahooimages.com and type in "blue angels" you`ll find a whole bunch just like mine.  =) thanks
kev13479.

You left somethin' somewhere methinks.

You hafta look everywhere for any trace(s) of FSX related anythings.........my thorn-in-the-side on one occasion was a texture folder that somehow got seperated from its "parent" and hid out in a document file.

Hi, which part of the microsoft instructions are you having trouble with?

It reads ok to me but then I grew up on dos as well as windows in the 80's.

regards
steve

Well everyone, sadly i will not succed in beating error 1722, because now my computer wont even finish the install. now it will freeze for days, i left it so it could load for a day, never did. came back next day, was still stuck on same part. tried again, same result. sadly im going to have to say goodbye to FSX. and with christmas coming up soon, i hope to be saying goodbye to this old windows xp as well. I guess for now i turn on my X-Box , play alittle football and wait for microsoft flight to come out. thanks for you assists.

Kev13479

Hi Boikat,

I think those are the instructions kev is on about.

regards
Steve

I wonder if there is a registry error and/or virus involved in this somehow....