"Tony Sperling"
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Nov 28, 2007, 2:06 PM
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Some do that, of course, but it's not always that simple - you may have
orphaned keys for uninstalled programs sitting in the reg. and MS programs
usually start off by offering the default path and everything else then
assume you have it installed there. I'm sometimes cought by this trap myself
when I re-install things I believe I know well, and not reading everything
just clicking O.K. and ending up with multiple installations. (Hrmph!)
It is also not really obvious what you are doing, because listboxes almost
always have a distinct frame and an arrow to the right, but the one I often
find in FS installations is looking like a single object listbox - it isn't
obvious that there are any options to chose from until you click it!
Tony. . .
"TEP" <erdontbelievethisgfgttp@freenet.de> wrote in message
news:5r5lq8F11idifU2@mid.individual.net...
> Tony Sperling schrieb:
>> I don't have FSX myself but this is usually a problem when you are not
>> consciously reading everything on the screen. We've all done that more
>> than once, it's a natural human disorder to take everything written as an
>> uneditable fact. Third-Party installers sometimes have this bug - MS,
>> wouldn't do that.
>>
>> Make sure that you open (click on!) every list-box in the dialog and I
>> expect you will find that the
>> one that says:
>> C:\somepath\
>> can be expanded into showing all the other available drives on your
>> system. Just navigate to your location from there.
>
> Why can't the installation program figure out the correct drive from the
> registry?
>
> T.
>
>>
>> Some things need to sit on the system drive (C:) - I am not aware if the
>> patches in the SP has this requirement? I would expect it to update the
>> FS system folder and that you should have the opportunity to navigate to
>> your own installation. Anything beyond that, the installer will sort it
>> out on it's own. So, study all the parts of that dialog.
>>
>>
>> Tony. . .
>>
>>
>> "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:249A12BA-F512-466C-B56A-45A69BF32220@microsoft.com...
>>> I have FSX installed on drive D: but the install appears to be
>>> restricted to
>>> drive C: The install tells me to install FSX first then Quits! How do I
>>> overcome this?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
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