"Bob Huntley"
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Nov 11, 2007, 1:31 PM
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FSX Re-Install Problem - What Are The Correct Security Settings
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Hi,
To cut a long story short (see BTW below) I had to completely remove and
re-install FSX & Acceleration last week. Only problem was that I think that
the "completely remove" bit didn't work completely and I'm left with a few
annoying issues. I've managed to fix most of them, but I'm left with one
problem, I need to set "Run As Administrator" in the shortcut to run FSX, or
else it complains about being unable to update the Scenery Indices etc. and
shuts down.
Could someone please right-click on the FSX executable file, select
Properties, move to the Security Tab and tell me what you see for each of
the entries there. I want to compare the settings of a healthy system with
my own.
On my system, I see 4 entries:
Authenticated Users - Modify, Read & Execute, Read & Write
SYSTEM - Full Control, Modify, Read & Execute, Read & Write
Administrators - Modify, Read & Execute, Read & Write
Users - Read & Execute, Read
Under the Advanced Tab on that page, the Owner was shown as "SYSTEM". I just
tried changing it to my log-in account (thinking it was trying to write the
indices there, but it made no difference.
Any other hints of tips about how to resolve this would be appreciated. (I'm
running Vista 32, with UAC on).
BTW - The incident was caused when I lost all connectivity to the Internet
after I'd installed Acceleration to my FSX folder on D: drive (the latest
Norton IS2007 Auto update did something that prevent my computer talking to
my ADSL router). I was forced to recover a Acronis Image of my C: drive,
which was based on the SP1 version of FSX so I ended up with a
pre-Acceleration C: Drive and a post -Acceleration D: drive which didn't get
on well together. I tried removing FSX to do a clean install, but I'm pretty
sure that it didn't work properly - FSX never disappeared from the "Remove
Programs" applet in Control Pane despite several attempts, and on re-install
I was never asked to enter the FSX product key - so despite my best efforts
at removing it there must be several remaining links left in the Registry,
or in hidden files on the system
PS - A possible solution would be remove it again, and totally purge the
system of any references to FSX if anyone can advise me how to do that
please.
PPS - I've totally purged my system of Norton IS2007, so at least won't have
that problem again.
Bob,
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