[jhb] Re: Win7 and FSX
- From: "e-mail algy.mcintyre" <algy.mcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:00:52 +0100
Hi Gerry
You could always try something the lines of this:-
http://www.funduc.com/app_mover.htm
Although I have not personally used it myself.
*Alastair *
On 23 October 2012 10:36, Gerry Winskill <gwinsk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have FSX in the Program folder to which it installed itself. To move it
> to a Root folder do I have to uninstal and re install FSX, or is there a
> simpler way?
>
> Gerry Winskill
>
>
>
>
> On 23/10/2012 01:33, Fossil wrote:
>
>> UAC only kicks in to protect files in the Program Files folder. Windows
>> maps
>> this folder with UAC and if there is any attempt to modify a file it saves
>> the changes in a mirrored file in the Virtual Store.
>>
>>
>>
>> For most programs this isn't an issue as the only original file likely to
>> change may be an INI or CFG file. But there are many programs that amend
>> of
>> add many new files, may run a database or need constant updating/amending.
>> If so all this work gets bunged into the Virtual Store - the original
>> program folder always remains pristine and as it was at installation.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you turn UAC off then the Program Files folder loses its protected
>> status, file will be changed directly and the Virtual Store will cease to
>> exist. I prefer to leave UAC on and install to a location outside Program
>> Files which is, mostly, empty. Some programs install to there without
>> giving
>> you an option so you will see their amended files in the VS. For programs
>> outside the Program files folder UAC can't touch them and the Virtual
>> Store
>> doesn't know they exist.
>>
>>
>>
>> With our SBS systems we have many data files, waypoint files, outlines
>> files
>> (coasts, airspace etc) and airline logos/aircraft silhouettes. They number
>> into the thousands and we have constant issues with new users changing the
>> files in the SBS folder and complaining that nothing changes on screen.
>> When
>> we eventually manage to get them to find the VS and change the file there
>> everything works fine again. I know we all have large hard drives but it
>> is
>> still annoying knowing that Windows mirrors files in this way and clogs up
>> space.
>>
>>
>>
>> I guess MS are aiming, as always, to the great computer illiterate out
>> there
>> and don't give a stuff how much HD space it eats up.
>>
>>
>>
>> Stay away from Program Files and your machine will behave just like you
>> were
>> used to in XP.
>>
>>
>>
>> bones
>>
>>
>>
>> bones@xxxxxxx
>>
>> http://woodair.net
>>
>>
>>
>> From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:jhb-bounce@freelists.**org<jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
>> On Behalf
>> Of Peter Dodds
>> Sent: 23 October 2012 00:08
>> To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [jhb] Re: Win7 and FSX
>>
>>
>>
>> I have always, since FS95, installed my sim directly off the root. C:\FSX,
>> or, in the case of my present FS machine G:\FSX where G:\ is the second,
>> non-OS HD. My 64bit Win7 laptop never gave me any trouble (my son has it
>> now!) adopting the same policy. In fact I have been free of the many
>> issues
>> that one sees reported, almost for ever. My present machine runs out of
>> memory occasionally, but if I switch off a couple of resource-hungry apps
>> (including dropbox) it remains OK. Skype is a big resource hog, and I
>> won't
>> have it on my FS machine. I have turned UAC off permanently.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> <mailto:paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx**uk <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> Paul
>> Reynolds
>>
>>
>> 23 October 2012 00:12
>>
>> My W7x64 setup had FSX installed on a second drive which naturally took it
>> outside of Programme Files. UAC was not disabled and everything ran fine,
>> including connecting to IVAO. I say had because a power surgesaw my mobo
>> get
>> fried so I'm now back to FS9 XP on my old PC.
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> <mailto:phil.reynolds@**blueyonder.co.uk<phil.reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
>> Phil Reynolds
>>
>>
>> 22 October 2012 20:42
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Could I get a bit of advice from all the FSX Win7-64bit users out there?
>>
>> I'm moving to a Win7-64bit system in the next few weeks and have read
>> various forum threads on how FSX should be installed/configured. My only
>> FSX
>> installations to date have been on XP-32bit so this is all new territory
>> for
>> me. Should I turn UAC off or install outside the "Program Files" folder?
>> Do
>> I need to delete the UIAutomation dll? Install FS/scenery/OS on separate
>> HDDs? Lots of questions which I'm sure you guys will have gone through to
>> set up your systems.
>>
>> Any advice on installation and configuration would be appreciated.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Phil
>>
>>
>>
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