WIN10 OS Forum

Hello, When executing Installer_SWS_Kodiak_Wheels_MSFS_20250224.exe from justflight.com I first have the warning from W10 "Microsoft Defender SmartScreen has prevented an unrecognised application from starting. Running this application may put your computer at risk." => I click on Execute Then I need to accept to install the app But nothing happens next I have tried so many times I have tested on an other w11 computer and it's working fine Do you know what could block the installer to run? Thanks for help. Franck

Hello, It is hard to set a title in few words to my post for a very complex situation. I'll try to be exhaustive ;). My computer is multi-boot with one boot leading to W10 and P3D simulator and the other boot to W10 and MSFS. When I boot on MSFS installe on a dedicated SSD, my Saitek controller throttle behaves incorrectly: - When I move very slightly both throttle levers forward, the engine rpm jump to 50% instantaneously and then works well for the remaining 50%. - If I use the Control setting "Sensitivity" from MSFS, I note that this behaviour is also the same when the cursor jumps at mid-course as soon as the lever is moved forward and the second ha…

Hi everyone. There are lots of threads about my issue all over the internet, and they all die out without providing solutions. Maybe the folks at Avsim can do better! Short version: Win10. Headphones (Steelseries 7x) were working great. Then I upgraded the video card and CPU. Now they click and pop constantly any time media is playing, and sometimes even drop out entirely for a second or two. Gets worse when videos are played (either Youtube or when a game runs a video (non-realtime rendered) cutscene. Long version: Original computer specs: AMD 2700x cpu, Asus Rog Strix X470F-Gaming motherboard, 32g ram, 1080Ti (also Asus Rog Strix). Had Blackshar…

As shown on the right side of the pic below, I have two small "unnamed" partitions. I don't know when they were created except it was a long time ago and I don't know what they are for. All I can think of (just guessing) is maybe one has to do with when I upgraded from Win7 to Win10, and the other perhaps is used by the Windows Restore function?? Might one of them be needed when it comes time to upgrade to Win11? If not needed can I delete these two partitions and return the space to my C drive? If yes, what is the best way to do that? Thanks very much, Al

Hello, so I have another thread going in the forums on a possible CPU upgrade. Given that it looks like going from Intel to AMD will require a reinstall of windows 10 I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to do the reinstall without impacting installed games, save games, mods, not to mention documents, pictures etc. Googling hasn’t really returned a lot of useful information oddly enough. I keep my C:\ drive pretty much exclusively for the O/S and not much else. With that I mind, if I reinstall the O/S will it largely leave the other drives alone? Most (but not all) of my games are through Steam. Thanks for any help. I want to do the upgrade but am drea…

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I had been flying all day and was going to cook dinner and be with the kid and wife for dinner, so I turned off my computer. Came back afterward and booted up machine as always. Everything is fine. I boot up MSFS and it completely crashes my system. This never happens. I've been lucky up until now to not be plagued with CTD's are many issues. Anyways, I though: "no big deal" and rebooted my machine. First I noticed my bluetooth mouse wasn't working and my speakers weren't connecting. Long story short, it now says that I don't even have blueooth installed on this machine, when I was using it a couple hours before. I've gone through the various websites and troubleshooting,…

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Hi there. Well i got a BSOD today after downloading DDU uninstaller and removing GPU driver in safe mode. After the restart it went in to safemode again so i had to restart again but this time with a Winload.exe error. Not seing this before so now i am recovering from a system build. Any one else who has experienced this? Is it not safe to use DDU? Thanks Michael Moe

Could someone possibly help me please. Today for the first time ever when opening msfs2020 I got the message unable to open game "error code (0x80070002)". The only thing I did before trying to open the game was to update my Windows10 via the settings. Surely this shouldn't have affected it? I have tried numerous suggestions found on the internet without joy. Anyone else with this problem?

I have encountered a Microsoft Office problem that is stopping me from using Outlook at work. When I double click on the Office icon, I am greeted with the following message - Sorry, we ran into an error. Please reload the page, or try again another time. Correlation ID: I have tried a couple of things based on what I have found online without success. That Correlation ID does not even have an address/code after it. It is just blank. I am hoping that some Office expert on here can help me to resolve the issue! EDIT: LOL, I have just realised that I can simply click on the Outlook icon in the Start Menu!!

Hi All: Are there any users of the Procmon utility out there? I have been using this and find it interesting to see what is happening behind the static screens. I had a filter that allowed display of only P3D and related operations and filtered out the rest. Unfortunately, when i did an update last week, for some reason I lost my filter. I did a search on Procmon in the P3D forum without any luck. My specs etc are in my signature below. I have forgotten where I found this. Can anybody recreate the filter? I'm not sure which forum this should go, so Admins please feel free to move as appropriate. Thanks so much for any help! P.

Pretty unexpected Windows 10 offered Windows 11 to me today. I didn't want to spend hours installing at the moment. What happens to installed programs, addons from Prepar3D? Are they kept in the registry as if I did an inplace upgrade? How long takes the update? Dan

I have two computers with Win 10 (updated for free from Win 7 ). One with a PhenomX4 CPU and the other with a haswell 4770K which is my sim computer. I see that Win 10 will retire in 2025. What options are there after that ? My system does not support Win 11 so upgrading OS is not an option. I surely can not think if throwing out my haswell system in 2025. Also I see that Win 11 will retire two years earlier than Win 10. That is really strange. I was under the impression that there should never be any Win 11 (or Win 12) just continuous Win 10 updates

Hello, In 2011 I built my own PC desktop…it has: 1. Intel i7-960 @3.20 GHz 2. Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 3. 28 go 0f DDR3 1333 MHz RAM 4 GigaByte GA-X58 Mother board 5. Silent Pro Gold RS-800-80GA-D3 power pack I am running Windows 10. The HDD died last year so I replaced it with a 2Tb SSD drive. In 2016 I was able to buy a real airplane. So, I got Prepar3d v 3 to help me with some training. Soon I found I was too busy flying to deal with the simulating. Come forward to 2022. My wife started flight training, so I drug the P3D out for her to work with. Now what happens is the P3d starts the flight but soon the entire computer just crash…

Hello, I am running a dual boot of win7 and win10 and i have a partition on my Computer which is mainly use for storage because its still a HDD. However, for unknown reasons this partition (formerly letter D:) vanished from my explorer. Using partition wizard or the win10 drive management tool allows me to see its "unallocated space" now. Is any of you aware of a way to restore that partition without data loss? All the tools google suggested me upon searching want me to "buy premium" first.

Hello everybody Merry Christmas and a happy, Covid-free new year! I bought a Thustmaster Hotas One at black friday sale. I plugged it in, installed the firmware, set all the buttons and axis – everything worked fine. Until I turned off my computer. When I resarted it, the joystick was dead. I had to unplug & plug again – bing – everything worked again. It is like that now all the time: I always have to unplug & replug. Good for my fitness, bad for my nerves 😉 How can I install the device for good? Regards Michael

I really want to give MSFS a go but I can't until I get my Windows updated. I have a $2,700 PC loaded pretty good and do not want to buy another PC, I can't afford it. I am totally familiar with the ability to upgrade from Win7 pro to Win10 pro, I have tried it twice. Both times it failed. Meaning I could go through the process but due to some sorts of errors I get well known and posted problems. One, the launch to black screen. For which I found five possible solutions, which I tried all five and all failed to fix this issues. Two, I can launch in safe mode but I get greyed out menus making it impossible to work with the OS. I have tried about fiv…

I'm about to do a clean reinstall of Windows 10 on my C : drive to solve some issues I'm having. My question is, since my libraries (Documents, Pictures, Music and Videos) are on D : drive, are they safe from the reinstall process? This is probably a silly question but I want to be sure I'm not losing any files on other drives other than C :. Thank you!

Hi, I accidently changed the appearance of a BGL file to a Notepad text file appearance. In other words, all the bgl files in flight simulator have the appearance of a Notepad text file rather than the appearance it had. Originally when I double clicked on the bgl file, it would ask me what program I wanted to use to open the bgl file. That's when I selected the Notepad program, thinking that it was a text file. Now when I double click on the bgl file, it opens in Notepad. How do I set it back to it's original appearance? I am running Windows 10 Pro. Ken. Manning

Hello, I have asked a shop to rebuild my PC with new MB, CPU, memory and video card ... and of course a new Win10 key This seams OK and it runs very well BUT I found a users/user link C:\Users\User Can I or may I change this Users/user change to Users/my name? Without troubles?? If yes "how to"? Thanks inadvance

I’m trying to setup a microphone for my FS2Crew module. Because of the distance, I have to use an extension cable. The mic, however, is not recognised by my PC when I’m using the extension. I tried the following. 1. Plug the cable as line in and then the microphone to the extension, the PC doesn’t acknowledge the mic. 2. Plug in the mic to the extension first and then plug the extension to the mic port. Doesn’t work for some reason. How can I make this work? Any suggestions? Thank you in advance!

Hello. I have a home cockpit that uses 3 PCs in the same network. I used P3DV5.2, I use Prosim 737. Lately I have been having the problem that in the middle of a flight the plane kept on flying but it is not responsive to any commands. I started investigating what was causing this issue. and I realized that the Main PC which is Window 10 based was getting disconnected from the network. The only way to fix that, is to reset the network, then enable network discovery, and then it will work again. This does not happen every time, but it has happened about 2 out every 10 flights. What could be causing the network connection from dropping. The other 2 com…

I'm pretty sure this has been discussed before but can't locate the postings. I'm about to get a new computer that has both a SSD and HDD. My question is on which should I put P3d and MSFS? I'm assuming that Win 10 will come loaded on the SSD. Does it even matter or is there any advantage to one way or other where the sims go? Thanks for any advice. Jim

Hello all, On Windows 10 21H2. We moved the other day, and hooking up my computer initially seemed to show that everything was fine with it. This morning, however, I got one of those Windows boot errors, 0xc000000e, with the explanation "A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed". I googled around a bit and most solutions say to use Windows' automatic repair to fix it. I have an old Windows Installation USB leying around, but I'll create a new one using another computer so that I have one that holds a more recent Windows version. Until that is done, I decided to look into the BIOS to see if I could find any clues there. In the boot order screen, I d…