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[JimNZ]

Hello fellow flyers.

 

There has been a lot of comment in this forum of a patch being released to make it easier for computer dumbo's like me to make the change from box set to FSX:SE ( I only have one drive), easier.

 

I have read the forums diligently to see if it has been released but found nothing, now, I may have missed it, can someone confirm or otherwise whether it has been released.

 

One last point, is there a program that helps remove any lasting FSX residue from the registry.

 

Regards to all.

 

Jim.

[Museumkeeper]

Hi Jim

 

I have never heard of a forthcoming patch to convert FSX to FSX-SE but Nick Cooper has placed the following help on the FSX Steam Edition Forum on numerous occasions and a trawl of this forum will give you more pointers to achieve your goal.

Ther trick is to make sure nothing is left of FSX before installing FSX-SE and that includes the registry.

 

Kind regards

 

Ian

 

 

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Sometimes there is still a trace of FSX and if that is the case, by default, FSX-SE will

be installed in "Co-exist" mode, ie so that it and FSX can be installed on the same PC.

This is why the external folders are named FSX-SE  instead of FSX.

 

Use your Registry Editor to go to

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator - Steam Edition

 

where you will see a Registry Key named Co-existence.

You will see that its value is 1.

Right click on modify and change this to 0.

 

You can then go to

 

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\

C:\Users\Your name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\

C:\Users\Your name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\

 

and in each case delete the FSX-SE folder.

If you see an FSX folder, delete that also.

 

Then restart FSX-SE and new folders named FSX will be created.

Once you have done this, the file structure should match what

the installers expect to find for FSX and work correctly.

 

Credit for this to Steve Waite at the Avsim forum.

I have tried it and it works for me exactly as I have written.

As I have both versions on my PC, I have also found tha

 

Ithe process is entirely reversible.