Gunfighter 0 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Could some one give me a site address for instructions on installing FSX on to Win 7 Never used Win7 as yet.Thank You Gunfighter Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Not being funny GF but just stick the DVD in the drive and run, no difference to XP. If you have Windows7 64 bit then the sim installs into the Program Files (x86) folder. Cheers Joe Link to post Share on other sites
Gunfighter 0 Posted April 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Not being funny GF but just stick the DVD in the drive and run, no difference to XP. If you have Windows7 64 bit then the sim installs into the Program Files (x86) folder. Cheers Joe Thanks, I had heared that if you install as normal XP style then there were problems with Win7 system not sure what, you hear that meany things on the forums.Thanks Again Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 997 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Whatever you do, DON'T install it into the default Program Files/program Files (x86) folder! You'll only be storing up heaps of trouble for yourself with permissions problems down the road. Install it somewhere else. In order of preference: (a.) on it's own hard drive (e.g. E:\FSX) (b.) on its own partition on any other hard drive (c.) somewhere else on your C drive (e.g. C:\FSX) Unless you have a super-fast interface (ie E-SATA) do not install it on a plug in external drive. Especially do not install it on a USB drive: They make snails look fast. To set the install location there is a "more...*" option on the first screen of the installer. It's not highly conspicuous so you have to be looking for it. [* may be called something different. It's been a while since my last install] Link to post Share on other sites
mutley 4,498 Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 Hmm interesting Tim, When I re-installed FSX to my PC I changed the default to my X (SSD) drive but still installed to program files (x86), why not install to the C: drive /pf(x386)? so long as you install as administrator, you have me worried now Link to post Share on other sites
stu7708 244 Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 I agree to what Tim says. Never install FSX in C:\Program Files(x86)\. The reason for this is the new security "feature" in Vista and Windows 7 that makes this folder and all sub-folders write protected. The only time I'd choose that for the install path is if you're comfortable with turing of the UAC in Windows. Personally I do have the UAC off, but still opted to change my install path. As for installing to X:\Program Files\, that really shouldn't be a problem. It's, as far as I know, only the Program Files folder on the System Partition that's protected by UAC, so you should be fine Joe. Link to post Share on other sites
TapA321 0 Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Do seperate drives have Program Files? I have windows running on its own seperate drive on C. Then I have another TB drive for FSX/FS9 and other games/sims. However, I've just installed all of these in a "Games" Folder.. i.e. X/Games/FSX. When I bought the drive it was blank. So how come you guys have Program Files on those drives? The OS drive (C:) is only 160GB and I haven't installed anything on it except I use the My Documents/Pictures etc. And also I've installed my anti-virus software onto C. I haven't encountered any problems with UAC on my main PC that I'm speaking about but I believe it's still there. However, any time I want to do anything on my laptop, it seems to crop up all over the place. E.g. Creating new folders prompts a UAC message? I imagine this is the sort of thing you mean in terms of problems with FSX in its default location? Cheers, George Link to post Share on other sites
Gunfighter 0 Posted April 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Well Thats a lot of info I'll have to put my thinking head on but Thanks for all your input Gunfighter Link to post Share on other sites
Tim_A 997 Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Do seperate drives have Program Files? No. There is only one "Program Files" folder, and it is on your system drive (usually c:). 64-bit machines actually have two folders "Program Files" which contains 64-bit programs and "Program Files (x86)" which contains 32-bit programs. You can create a folder anywhere on your PC and call it "Program Files", but that will not make it *the* Program Files folder; it's just a folder that happens to have the same name. Link to post Share on other sites
TapA321 0 Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 Ah I see. Thanks for the info, Tim! :001_th_smiles89: George Link to post Share on other sites
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