alot of people are saying go into power options and set usb to never suspend, i had installed windows 8 today but didn not discover trying it because i was already pissed and used a system image back to windows 7, i have tried going to windows 8 at least 10 times since it was released and i just can't warm up to it, it sucks period,but fsx will probably be long gone when windows 7 support ends.