I will post anything further that comes up. Prior to that I had run the troubleshooter and on a test it did open so that gave me hope that it was in there somewhere to keep going I then went back to this list and selected an icon of a plane on it and made that the shortcut, deleted the original and when I clicked on the new one we had lift off,īut the FS 2004 beats me, I tried a link in Microsoft which updated to version 9.1, then checked Direct X was correct but the remaining instructions related to versions before 10 and I could not use to them. Well I have had a tiny bit of success, i finally got FS X to work, the trouble was I did so much fiddling I am not sure which did the trick but basically I got into the main program list and right clicked on the FSX entry ( not in FS Games folder ) and found it suddenly had a compatibility tab and changed it to vista or 7, not sure which.