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Postby Dash8captain » Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:55 pm

put disc in and the installshield wizard opened and started going and came up with the following error:

Error 1324. The path Program Files contains an invalid character

I googled this error and it seems you have to acess the Registry Editor by typing in Regedit into Start-Run but when I do this it says that acess is denied - Help what do I do????? angry.gif angry.gif angry.gif mad.gif mad.gif mad.gif

please help!!
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Postby dbcunnz » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:02 pm

Are you using Windows XP?
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Postby Dash8captain » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:03 pm

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Are you using Windows XP?


Yes 32 bit SP3
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Postby dbcunnz » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:22 pm

Are you trying to install it to C:/programs files?
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Postby Dash8captain » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:25 pm

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Are you trying to install it to C:/programs files?



Yes
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Postby zkcav » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:33 pm

Windows is very protective of Program files (why I can't recall exact reasons - something about inexperienced users deleting or moving essential files). Quite a few recommend installing FSX on either it's own partition or better still it's own drive, where windows doesn't care what you do with it.

The other thing to try with regedit is make sure you are logged in and opening it with Admin rights...
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Postby dbcunnz » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:33 pm

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Yes

Try it again and when it comes to the instal see what path it is going to install in it will be something like C:/Program Files Microsoft Games
can you give me the exact path that it says it is going to install in.
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Postby Dash8captain » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:34 pm

zkcav wrote:
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Windows is very protective of Program files (why I can't recall exact reasons - something about inexperienced users deleting or moving essential files). Quite a few recommend installing FSX on either it's own partition or better still it's own drive, where windows doesn't care what you do with it.

The other thing to try with regedit is make sure you are logged in and opening it with Admin rights...


how do you install it on its own partition?
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Postby dbcunnz » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:36 pm

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how do you install it on its own partition?

Have you got a partition set up to install it on?
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Postby Dash8captain » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:37 pm

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Have you got a partition set up to install it on?


sorry I'm a noob whats that?
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Postby dbcunnz » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:39 pm

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sorry I'm a noob whats that?

Do you have more than one hard drive on your PC?
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Postby Dash8captain » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:44 pm

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Do you have more than one hard drive on your PC?


No I do have portable ones though
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Postby dbcunnz » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:46 pm

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No I do have portable ones though

Portable drives are no good for FSX
how big is the hard drive in your PC if you right click on your C drive and go to properties it should tell you there how many GB it is
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Postby Dash8captain » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:47 pm

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Portable drives are no good for FSX
how big is the hard drive in your PC if you right click on your C drive and go to properties it should tell you there how many GB it is


Yes Iv just changed it to a 500GB hard drive
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Postby dbcunnz » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:49 pm

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Yes Iv just changed it to a 500GB hard drive

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Postby Dash8captain » Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:15 am

well I chuffed now for some reason FSX was trying to install its self to a card reader so I unplgged that and now its installing properly!!! thumbup1.gif bloody computers they always stuff things up every now and then! winkyy.gif

thanks for the help guys
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Postby dbcunnz » Sat Mar 23, 2013 12:18 pm

Dash8captain wrote:
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well I chuffed now for some reason FSX was trying to install its self to a card reader so I unplgged that and now its installing properly!!! thumbup1.gif bloody computers they always stuff things up every now and then! winkyy.gif

thanks for the help guys

Good that you have got it installed as I said it pays to check to see what path it is going to install to before hitting the install button
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