Hi all,

As many of us have experienced, when we have loaded Microsoft Flight Simulator onto a PC which got updated to Windows 10, the fsx.exe file disappears. I plowed my way through numerous blogs and supposed fixes but could never find the file to run my program, and I just about gave up! Then I thought that this exe file must be on one of the two program discs so I put disc 1 into the pc, opened up Windows explorer, clicked on the drive with the disc in and entered  “fsx.exe” into the search bar. Within seconds it found the file!! I then copied the file, found the Flight Simulator program in “Program Files - Microsoft Games - Microsoft Flight Simulator and pasted into the folder. I dragged the fsx.exe file onto my desktop and double clicked it from there - BUT IT DIDNT WORK AND I GOT AN ERRO MESSAGE “error 25 - null”. I then double clicked the fsx.exe file from the location in the Flight Simulator folder AND AGAIN IT DID NOT WORK. I then right clicked the “fsx.exe” file in the Flight Simulator folder and you get an option to “Open as Administrator “ and low and behold IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately you have to open in this way every time but my problem is fixed and I’m flying again.

wrong forum, my friend