Fsbuild-2 Flight Planner

Hello

i have installed the latest fsbuild on my new windows 7 64 machine but there is not flight plan showing. the route is drawn on the map but no waypoint above in the plan. i have used fsbuild for years on xp and know it well. if i re install the latest patch the plan works once the next time i start fsb but then after that nothing?


any suggestions

thanks
kavan

Hi Kavan,

I too have Windows7(64) sadly. I am having a lot of issues getting software to work that worked fine in XP for years. I have experienced problems with FSBuild in Windows7 but now seem to have it working okay. Some files mysteriously went missing from the installation and I think it was caused by the Windows7 tight security doing something weird. After several reinstalls (as myself and as administrator) and running FSBuild as an adminstrator, I eventually found the solution was to set the compatibilty of FSBuild2.exe to XP after installation and before running FSBuild. That seems to circumvent the Windows7 security and FSBuild now runs okay. If you haven't resolved your FSBuild problem I hope this is a solution.

Regards,
Tony

I just got a Win7 machine. I just ran the Installer and it all worked perfectly.

So I suspect Tony is right in suggesting it may be related to windows security.

Regards.
Ernie.

Ernie,

It would seem that Windows7 security has a mind of it's own. I have read several problems where the security has been set differently for different people. My installation of FSBuild had the majority of the file icons with a padlock symbol on them. I am informed that this signifies that the SYSTEM has ownership of these files. When I looked at the file properties it showed the Owner as Administrators. I uninstalled FSBuild (yet again) and found that a couple of files couldn't be deleted (even as an adminstrator). When I tried to change the ownership of these files it said I and the administrator didn't have permission. I had to start up the computer in SAFE MODE at the command prompt as an administrator. Navidate to the FSBuild folder (sub-directory to my generation) and delete the files and finally the FSBuild folder using DOS commands. On reinstalling FSBuild the padlock symbols were back again. I finally managed to remove them by doing the following:

Right click on the FSBuild folder and select properties.
Click on the Security tab.
Click Advanced.
Ignore the list of Permission Entries and click on Change Permissions...
At the botton is a tick box "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object", tick this and click on Apply.
Then close down the properties.

I found this cured my problem and thought I would pass this on in case anyone else has this problem.

Incidently, When I installed the latest AIRAC some of the files ended up with padlocks on the icons again. I just repeated the above procedure to get rid of the padlocks.

Regards,
Tony

(PS. The more I use Windows7 and discover it's inconsistencies the more I hate it and grateful that I have now finally retired from IT.)