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Windows damaged by misinstalled add-on (Read 366 times)
May 8th, 2011 at 2:30am

gaw1269   Offline
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  Hello, group. My son loves this game, so at his request, I downloaded and installed a few add-ons from this site. I saved the "FSX Rosenbaur Panther Fire Truck" add-on to the "Airplanes" folder. (I don't play the game, so I didn't know that it included ground vehicles.) All ran fine until my son started a mission using the fire truck. Now, Windows and/or Office are not running properly. I can get online using Safe Mode, but when I try to open an Office document, for example, the programs close because the system can't validate the program licenses (which I do have; I purchased everything legitimately).
  Has anyone seen this issue before, or do you have any ideas how to fix it? Thank you very much.
 
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Reply #1 - May 8th, 2011 at 5:02am

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i would suggest trying to restore your pc / laptop to a date before you added the files / started to have problems
all though this will not remove the files from the FS folder it may undo any changes you have made to any system files / settings thus allowing you to boot windows properly again

i doubt very much that this problem was caused by FS.
as i said give system restore a try and let us know how you get on
 

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Reply #2 - May 8th, 2011 at 5:08am

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Zipped M$ addons are simple files in a FSX sub folder that FSX will recognise but they do not install any sofware into any of your Windows folders or registry. It is highly unlikely if you installed this file into FSX that it would have any effect on any other program. Installing it into 'airplanes' will not do any damage.

Have you at least removed the file?

It is highly unlikely that a FS file will have caused this problem. In all the years I have been involved in FS with 100, 000's files, I have never heard of any damage being done by a FS file.
 

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Reply #3 - May 8th, 2011 at 8:17am

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Like Pete, I suspect another cause.  Never heard of FS stuff mucking up the OS.  Usually a problem just mucks up the sim itself.

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