Chicago O'Hare.....the terminal is GONE!

[igor7111]

Install went fine.  Running the FSX version, SP2 with windows xp.

Everything looks great except the terminal itself is gone.  Just a big
blank space where the terminal should be.

Any ideas?

[virtuali]

There are plenty of similar threads, I suggest searching the forum.

Very briefly:

- Check you have the Addon Manager running, under the Addons menu

- If the Addon Manager works, then check you Scenery Library, and see if O'Hare is present and at the top level, if not, add it manually.

[igor7111]

Thanks for the reply.

Affirmative to both questions.

Re searching for similar threads, I did so with no results.

Do you have some links and/or search key words that
might work?

[virtuali]

It's just one terminal that disappeared, or all of them ?

[igor7111]

All of them!   Just a bunch of jetways and vehicles sitting around.

[virtuali]

Which is very strange, because usually this happens only if the Addon Manager is not running. But if you see it under the Addons menu, it's surely running fine.

Do you see the ground scenery instead ? Taxilines, runways, etc ?

[igor7111]

Sorry, I thought you were talking about the Scenery Manager inside of FSX.

Actually, no, the addon manager does NOT show up.  I decided to do a total
re-install and when I get into FSX, the only addon that shows up is FSPUIC.

I have my order number and serial number handy, so I thought it would be
easy to just plug those in, but I can't get the FS Dream Team Add-on Manager
to show up at all now   

[virtuali]

That's makes more sense.

Try this:

- Turn off your antivirus

- Reinstall either O'Hare, or the stand-alone Addon Manager

- Turn on the antivirus, don't run FSX yet. Configure the antivirus to ignore the FSX main folder

- Launch FSX. Check that is asking you to trust the Addon Manager module, reply Yes

- If you see any error, don't panic, allow the module to run, and if it still gives you an error, reboot and launch FSX again, it will go away

[igor7111]

I'm stumped Umberto.  Followed your directions, but I still don't see
the Add On Manager in FSX.  Only mod is FSUIPC.  I installed the
"ohare_setup.exe" file.  Do I need to separately install the Add on Mgr?
I thought it was part of the ohare setup.  In any event, I can't for
the life of me figure out why the Add on Manager isn't showing up
for me.  Anything you can think of?
Thanks for the help.

[virtuali]

Yes, the Addon Manager is included with O'Hare, that's why I've said that you could reinstall O'Hare or the stand-alone Addon Manager and it would be the same.

Perhaps the program has been flagged as unstrusted. You can reset it by doing this:

- open your FSX.CFG, found under %APPDATA%\Microsoft\FSX with a text editor like notepad.

- find all the lines that contains a reference to bglmanx.dll and remove the whole line

- exit, save the file and try again

[igor7111]

No joy 

I restored my fsx.cfg to an initial state (this all being on a relatively
fresh install).  Re-installed ohare_exe and ran it but again, no add on
manager.  Strangely, one of the items I deleted states it was dml after
add on manager and dml after add on manager.  But no add on manager
applies.  Don't get it. 

[virtuali]

Haven't got a request to trus the module, at least ?

If not, check this key with REGEDIT:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WinTrust\Trust Providers\Software Publishing

The default value is 0x23c00 (23c00 hexadecimal). If you see any other value, try to change it to back 0x23c00.

[igor7111]

The value was nothing like the one you gave me, which I changed.
Still no Add on Manager   

Come to think of it, I'm nowhere asked for my serial number.  Keep in
mind this is on a fresh FSX install.  Is that amiss?

[virtuali]

The value was nothing like the one you gave me, which I changed.

That's the issue, for sure. If it's not 0x23c00 hex ( 146432 in decimal ), Windows will stop asking to trust ANY new executable that has been installed.

Please, double check the value is correct. Do you have any idea what software might have changed that ? Something related to security, perhaps ?

Still no Add on Manager

Have you rebooted Windows ? Have you tried reinstalling only the stand-alone Addon Manager after rebooting Windows following the fix to the registry ?

Come to think of it, I'm nowhere asked for my serial number.

That's obvious: if the Addon Manager is not executing, how it's supposed to ask the serial number ?

The whole issue is to seeing the Windows request to trust the Addon Manager. This request is done by WINDOWS ITSELF. At this stage, the Addon Manager is still NOT running (it would be silly asking the permission to run a software that has already started...) so, everything that happens or not happens at this stage, it's a Windows config error, doesn't have anything to do with our software, that still hasn't got the chance to run, yet.

So, you HAVE to see the Windows request to trust it, if this doesn't come up, than it's sure something is wrong with Windows.

BTW, it might be worthwhile to check if the Addon Manager has been added to your DLL.XML file, which is located at

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\FSX

Check if you see its line in the module's list. Check that it hasn't been disabled ( <disabled>True</disabled ) and verify that the *whole* DLL.XML file hasn't been disabled as well (there's a general switch on top of the file)

[virtuali]

I checked DLL.XML and it has the Add on Manager there but it's disabled. 

<Name>Addon Manager</Name>
  <Disabled>False</Disabled>
  <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>
  <Path>bglmanx.dll</Path>

Can you edit those things (XML files) and if so, with what please?

No, it's not disabled, beause <Disabled> is set to False. If it was disabled, it would have set to True.

However, if you Attach your DLL.XML file (not post it, Attach it using the "Additional Options" ) I can verify the whole file.