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What are you going to do when W7's not supported?

Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:04:35 +0000

I'm on W7 now. Answers greatly appreciated. I'm planning on staying with P3DV4 for a long while.

STEAM Stops support for windows 7 & 8

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:52:04 +0000

Valve Prepares to Kill Steam Gaming on Windows 7 and 8 | Tom's Hardware (tomshardware.com)

Security Update Nvidia W7

Wed, 18 May 2022 12:50:17 +0000

NVIDIA Windows 7 GeForce Security Update Driver 473.62 (guru3d.com)

Connectivity Issues

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 23:03:40 +0000

I have been facing facing this problem ever since I downgraded to windows 7 due to performance and haven't been able to find a solution, every once in a matter of minutes the wifi connection says that the connection is limited and I have to manually fix the issue by resetting the wireless adapter.

Is there a solution to permanently fix this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards

Amr

Odd freezing at BIOS splash screen

Fri, 21 May 2021 13:14:10 +0000

I have an old Alienware Aurora R4 desktop, running Windows 7 Home. The last couple of months it has been acting oddly during booting up, alternating between locking up at the BIOS splash screen and booting as normal. What happens is that, after having booted up normally, if it restarts/reboots (cold or warm) once it reaches the BIOS splash screen, where you can select F2 or F12 (or the hidden F8) it beeps once then the computer just hangs there. Nothing works: no keys, mouse; no input at all. Pressing the power button immediately kills everything: the machine instantly shuts down and all power off. Pressing and releasing the power button after that, and the computer does nothing at all for about 3-4 seconds, before turning on as normal.

It does this on a regular cycle, alternating between locking up at the BIOS screen and booting up to the desktop. I tried everything to fix it: disabling all services except MS ones using msconfig; unplugging all peripherals, including mouse and keyboard; assuring all software and drivers--including BIOS--were up to date. I finally pinpointed the problem: the wireless USB network adapter.

I've tried two different ones: Netgear and Belkin, and the same thing happens: If either are plugged in (and I've tried four different USB ports with each) the computer goes through the alternating freeze-and-normal boot cycle. If I unplug them, then the computer boots normally. If I have them plugged in, then unplug them before rebooting, the computer boots normal and without the odd 3-4 second pause. I just can't have them plugged in during a boot.

I can't seem to find anything online that addresses this, so I thought I'd try here.

symbolic links confusion

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:28:24 +0000

The usage context confuses me a bit. I'm hoping someone knowledgeable can type out the correct usage.

create a symbolic link on drive C:\

safely remove a symbolic link from drive C:\

many thanks...

32 bit

Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:13:27 +0000

Good afternoon at all

I have a Win7 64 bit PC,and I have a problem with " Traffic 2005" Just Flight 32 bit bought some years ago. I can't install it on my PC, there is a registry trick ? I know that 32 bit programs are ok in 64 bit. Someone has an idea ? Thank you

Software to complement Windows Defender

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 00:52:14 +0000

Hello all,

I have the following specs:

FSX (Acceleration)

Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

System Model: HP ProDesk 400 G1 MT

Processor: Intel (R) Core (TM) i5-4670S CPU@3.10GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.1GHz

Memory: 4096MB RAM

Page File: 3730 MB used, 4305MB available

Direct X Version: Direct X11

In light of my specs, I am looking for the best complementary antiviral, registry cleaning, disk checking, disk defragmentation, driver updates, game booster software to go along with Windows Defender--software that will allow me run FSX and Active Sky Next for FSX without serious RAM issues. All of the current software I've come across (Norton, McAfee etc.) will pose excessive RAM usage issues for me. Thanks as always.

Window 7 error message 0x6

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:16:12 +0000

Hello:

I need Windo7 7 which I downloaded.I have a problem to imstall it as I get

error message 0x6.

How can I remove this error message ?

Can anybody help

Thanks

Paul12

Win 7 and Win 10 dual boot: win 7 doesnt boot.

Sat, 29 Aug 2020 20:47:38 +0000

So i recently installed Win10 64bit (guess why) on my long serving Win 7 system and intended to keep both OS in a dual boot configuration. There is a tutorial which told me this is completely possible and Win10 recognizes a Win7 system at startup and asks which one to boot.
I have 2 SSDs, created an unpartitioned space on one of them and, using partition wizard, and switched its partition grid to GPT, installed Win10 and this works. But: Win10 doesnt find Win7 at bootup as intended. To get into Win7, I had to manually change the boot HDD in BIOS setup.
After a bit of switching around, the Win7 OS doesnt boot anymore. Selecting to boot from "Windows boot manager" in BIOS brings me to Win10. But when i try to manually select the Win7 SSD after that, i am only being shown a white blinking cursor and nothing happens after that.

So does anyone have an idea how to get my Win7 system back, or to make the windows boot selector recognize that installation?

Win7 to Win10, new mobo, new SSD boot drive

Wed, 05 Aug 2020 21:11:28 +0000

I currently use Windows 7. I'm upgrading my entire system to get ready for FSX 2020 and because MS has stopped supporting Windows 7, so a lot of stuff I use will be effected going forward, including my tax software for next year.

I'm building a new computer and using a lot of newer parts from my old computer, including my HDD c drive and b drive (which house all my programs like FSX).

So this is what I'm doing and what I'm concerned about.

New case, mobo, chip, memory, and m2 ssd hard drive to boot from on a new fresh Windows 10 that I have put on a thumb drive for the build.

My old computer has Windows 7 with a C and B HDD drives. FSX is installed on C drive with extras on my B drive (windows 7).

*** I think if I build the new computer and add my old B and C drives, none of those programs will work, plus the operating system will be Windows 10 from my New SSD m2 drive.

Questions:

1. Will simply renaming my boot drive to say "A drive" and leaving my old B and C drives labeled that way give me any advantage on getting FSX, etc programs installed on my old C drive to work, such as in the Windows 10 control panel?

2. If not, is there an app to solve this problem so I don't have to lose all my settings and everything on reinstalling all my existing c drive programs?

3. Is there a way to handle this upgrade without losing anymore of the hair off my bald head, when I start pulling it out during the build? 🙂

Any advice would be very much appreciated! I'm getting ready for FSX 2020!

Anyone ever use EaseUS for this? It's a transfer program.

List of FlightSim things that nolonger runing on WIN7?

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:45:36 +0000

Most flightsim and add-on makers have already offically droped win7 along with MS, thus make running their product on win7 untested and under one's own risk.

Still, some actually running well under win7, but some was already definitely NOT working on win7 anymore.

So are anyone still using win7 intersted in making this ongoing list? Whether it's for us diehard to avoid unnecessary purchase, or to encourage one to go for WIN10

I certainly can't buy and test them all, here is what I know:

FSL A320 after v5.1.0.100

AS CRJ pro after v2.2

How to determine if a specific program has internet access?

Tue, 12 May 2020 08:51:37 +0000

Hello everyone,

I am currently trying to solve a problem with ChasePlane. The program has an auto-update function that launches itself each time on startup. Because of a programming error (imho) Chaseplane deletes itself (the old version) before successfully downloading the new version. Therefore the program uninstalls itself upon launch.
Support points me at antivirus or firewalls blocking the update download, but I dont have anything like that running. I placed the whole machine in the routers DMZ, deactivated windows firewall and DEP and do not have any antivirus installed.
However, something still seems to block Chaseplane.exe from accessing its update server.

Is there any general way/tool to test the internet access of a specific program on my computer? Like a connection monitoring tool etc?

Windows 7 update.

Tue, 28 Jan 2020 13:19:02 +0000

MS have released a W7 update the last it possible for home users.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/microsoft-to-release-one-more-update-(free)-for-windows-7correcting-the-black-wallpaper-issue.html

New virus scanner needed after Jan 2020

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:37:50 +0000

Have MSE virus scanner but in January Microsoft is stopping support for Windows 7 .

Thinking of getting the paid Norton 360 virus scanner.

It will be for my FSX ( and in the future for P3D and Windows 10 )

I want to keep my complete computer safe and of course the Flight Simulations.

Any tips are most welcome.

Can I send my photos to my PC?

Fri, 27 Dec 2019 02:02:52 +0000

Can I send my photos from my iPhone to my PC with shareit?

What Happens When Windows 7 DIES?

Sat, 16 Mar 2019 05:41:53 +0000

Complete removal win 7

Sun, 03 Mar 2019 00:54:19 +0000

Hi, Im installing a new sim and also want to start with a fresh install of win 7

whats the best way? I was thinking just reformat the drive .

Search file issue

Sun, 27 May 2018 08:55:12 +0000

I have for many years downloaded / collected SID / STAR charts that ive found online. I add them all to a file, then when needed i open that file and useing the search function, type in the ICAO and it will find the chart pdf file.

For some reason this isnt working the way it should. I've made no changes so im baffled...

Added a pic to help explain :

Does anyone know how to solve this please.

Thanks.

I Got win 7 running on a coffee lake pc THE easy method

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 05:04:35 +0000

I got win 7 running on a coffee lake pc !!!

using only these 3 extra items I purchased 2nd hand

1) a ps2 mouse and keyboard needed for installing windows menus as the coffee lake usb 3.0 or 3.1 are to new for windows 7 to regonise during the install

costing about 4 pounds for the ps2 mouse and 4 for the ps2 keyboard

2) a cheap 4 port or 7 port usb 3.0 pci-e card you can plugin in to you motherboard that will give you mouse and keyboard functionality in windows once windows is instaLLED

costing about 14 pounds

once windows is installed you wont be able to use the motherboards built in usb as windows 7 wont regonise the new ports

but that ok because you've installed a usb pci-e that will give you 7 usb ports

I need to do this as I needed tileproxy for my scenery thats work perfectly in windows 7

tile proxy runs on prepar3d v3 win7 using this method

boot F8 select disable driver signing enforcement

disable UAC in windows

and run Prepar3d v3 using FS estoninia start in legacy mode

this could be useful info for anyone whos bought a new pc and needs to get windows 7

installed using an easy method ( no skill required !!!)

Help! fsx is not installing nethier on steam edition nor default

Wed, 04 Jul 2018 23:46:47 +0000

When I try to install FSX steam edition/default they both failed to install due to some type of error. I tried to install the steam edition, but it says that I need steam running, THEN I tried to install the standard It too has problems, this time when I inserted disc 1 this time with some red x error. Can anyone help me?☹️ I'm frustrated that my windows 7 computer keeps acting up and newer versions of windows are not the same.😡

I wish that Microsoft will continue releasing more flight simulators but instead, we were stuck with acceleration for 11 years now since they don't have new versions of flight simulator anymore and they are not compatible on any new version of windows (8, 10 etc.). 🙄

Windows 7 will not update after a fresh reinstall

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:12:44 +0000

If you have just reinstalled your Windows 7 Operating system But now it will not update please follow the steps in the link below.

https://plugable.com/2016/06/08/windows-7-wont-update-what-to-do/

Problems downloading software

Sat, 14 Apr 2018 01:58:29 +0000

I use Windows 7. I have been having issues recently with my system after Microsoft automatically installed what they called critical updates. Now I can no longer download software on to my computer. I keep getting a weird message - The system cannot find the file specified. I was using win zip. I am trying to trouble shoot to locate the issue. Is there any other software besides win zip I can try out? Thanks for your assistance.

Latest windows update seems to slow CPU down

Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:16:44 +0000

I just installed the latest windows security update, KB 4056894 and net framework update 4074880 and my i5 2320 seems to be working much harder with P3D than it did before update. Anyone else notice this. I wonder if this is part of the problem that was announced a couple of weeks ago with the Intel Processors. I think I will roll his update back and not install any more updates.Can't afford a new PC .

joystick disconnect from usb issues

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:55:36 +0000

hi all: I continue to have issues with my microsoft force feedback joystick. USB version.

turning on an amp in the computer room, causes the joystick to disconnect, then it may reconnect on its own, a few seconds later.

sometimes I have to plug it back in myself. I have tried all ports on my computer. both 2.0 and 3.0

Also, many times when I plug another usb device in, the joystick also will disconnect.

I cannot figure out how to resolve this issue.

any advice would be appreciated.

-stampee