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Products Support => GSX Support FSX/P3D => Topic started by: olseric on September 10, 2019, 11:22:03 pm

Title: Partial Uninstall?
Post by: olseric on September 10, 2019, 11:22:03 pm

Forgive me if this has been asked, but basically I uninstalled FSX because I have P3D2 and 4 installed on my rig.  When I try to launch the Control Panel, it says FSX can't be found (obviously).

Is there a way to remove FSX from the configuration or will this require a full re-install?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Partial Uninstall?
Post by: virtuali on September 11, 2019, 02:14:59 pm

You must have uninstalled FSX in the wrong way ( manual removal, for example ), because when FSX is uninstalled, its registry keys should be removed as well.

Reinstalling GSX won't make any difference, because the problem is not GSX, is your FSX registry keys still there so, GSX is trusting the registry, checking there's no FSX there, and informing you of the problem, so you will know you have a problem to fix.

If the FSX uninstall didn't go well, you will have to remove the orphaned FSX keys from the registry, which can be in either of these locations:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft Games

Title: Re: Partial Uninstall?
Post by: olseric on September 18, 2019, 03:24:26 am

Someone was kind enough to make a registry "tweaker" for FSX...found the paths and cleaned it up.  All good now!