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Addon Manager **SOLVED**
Kevin:
Thanks Virtuali I will give it a shot!
KB
normandean:
Well, I give up!!
I have been folowing this thread, as I have been plagued by the failure of FSX to load with the FSDT airports loaded. I do not have FSCopilot installed and have tried each remedy that has been suggested, all the no avail.
Today I noted the comment about an upgrade to the addon manager, so I have uninstalled everything, re-installed and then installed the stand alone addon manager, all separately and checked one at a time and still I get the failure to load due to FSX hanging after accepting the addon manager dll.
It is therefore with a heavy heart that I have finally decided to give up the struggle and remove all the FSDT products form my system.
Norman :(
virtuali:
You probably haven't tried all the remedies. So, let's start from scratch again, please follow every step:
- Go into Control Panel, remove the Addon Manager, if you have an entry for it.
- Go into the FSX folder, verify that ALL bglmanx.dll files AND all the bglmanx*.dat files have been really removed. If not, removed them manually.
- Reboot Windows. Yes, this IS important. Do it, please.
- Turn the Antvirus OFF. Yes, this IS important.
- Reinstall the Addon Manager using the stand-alone installer. Don't run FSX yet.
- Configure the antivirus to ignore the following files:
YourFSXFolder\bglmanx.dll
YourFSXFolder\fsdreamteam\Couatl\couatl.exe
- Open your FSX.CFG file, located at %APPDATA%\Microsoft\FSX, with Notepad.
- Look under the [Trusted] section, and remove ALL the lines that contains a reference to bglmanx.dll. The whole line. Save the file back, don't launch FSX yet.
- Launch FSX. At the request to Trust the Addon Manager, reply YES, to both question, the one by Windows and the one by FSX itself.
- If you get the error the 3rd party module can't be loaded, IGNORE IT, and ALLOW it to run, regardless of what it says. Don't worry if FSX crashes after having issued that message. It doens't matter.
- Keep trying and, allow 20-30 seconds between each tries. If after 3-4 times it's always the same, REBOOT Windows and try again. Yes, this IS important, do it please.
normandean:
Well, there was almost no difference between what you have specified and what I have been doing. A couple of differences; firstly I have UAC permanently turned off and secondly I have an exemption for my Microsoft Flight Simulator X folder and all the folders and files it contains in my anti virus already.
However, I have now been through your procedure three times, with UAC turned on and off; with the virus exemptions you specified also added to my already general exemption and this time I deleted the file bglmanx_aerosoft, that I had not done before.
After about 20 to 25 restarts it still doesn't run!!
Norman
virtuali:
--- Quote ---I have an exemption for my Microsoft Flight Simulator X folder and all the folders and files it contains in my anti virus already.
--- End quote ---
That's not enough. If you read my message carefully, this was just *one* of the two operations needed on the antivirus.
The other one was to turn it off entirely ( not just quit from its interface, you need to turn off the real-time protection options ) before reinstalling. This is important because, files are first copied to the Windows Temporary folder BEFORE they are copied in the FSX folder. So, just exempting the FSX folder from scanning it's not enough, because the antivirus might still interfere before the files get a chance to be copied there.
So please, be sure that you have any realtime protection option turned off in the antivirus, before reinstalling.
--- Quote from: normandean on February 23, 2010, 05:59:54 pm ---this time I deleted the file bglmanx_aerosoft, that I had not done before.
--- End quote ---
I'm sorry, but if you are saying this, there might be an issue. You shouldn't remove just 1 .dat file. In fact, the uninstaller will remove all of them: the bglmanx.dll and the 4 .dat files. You shouldn't had to remove just the bglmanx_aerosoft.dat file.
In fact, if you have mixed .dat files from different versions, you might get that error.
So, please, check again that you don't have ANY file named bglmanx* ( the 1 DLL and the 4 DAT ) in the FSX root folder, before reinstalling.
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