Reinstalling Issue: "The registry entry…"
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@Cloud:
Are you familiar with messing with the registry?
What OS you on, and is it 32 or 64 bit?
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I still had falcon BMS 4.33 U1 installed on my laptop and just looked at the registry entry and duplicated it to my desktop manually, all working fine now:)
Did you navigate to this thread with your eyes closed ?
First post needs to be updated for the new guys. Dunc if your awake yet ?
I did use that but nothing happened in the registry, it does something but not that i needed. I still had Falcon BMS 4.33 U2 installed but after a windows 10 error i had to reinstall. Windows 10 has a new option to keep all you data while getting a fresh OS so i did that but of course all registry entries are gone.
Is there a way to get my old profile running again? I tried copying a backup into the user folder but wont show the profile with the correct stats.
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I still had falcon BMS 4.33 U1 installed on my laptop and just looked at the registry entry and duplicated it to my desktop manually, all working fine now:)
Nice, Quick thinking there.
Get what old profile running again, Joystick, Pilot??
C9
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My bad I miss read you problem. Although you did not go into much detail.
Apologize for my brash remarks.
I still had falcon BMS 4.33 U1 installed on my laptop and just looked at the registry entry and duplicated it to my desktop manually, all working fine now:)
I did use that but nothing happened in the registry, it does something but not that i needed. I still had Falcon BMS 4.33 U2 installed but after a windows 10 error i had to reinstall. Windows 10 has a new option to keep all you data while getting a fresh OS so i did that but of course all registry entries are gone.
Is there a way to get my old profile running again? I tried copying a backup into the user folder but wont show the profile with the correct stats.
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The “wow” did the trick! Thanks. I thought I looked everywhere for benchmark.
"In the registry, are you looking in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Wow6432Node folder for a BMS entry?? Not sure the registry in W10 is similar to W7, which I’m on.
Just a shot in the dark.
C9"
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Two things are clear:
1. Not everyone spend huge amounts of time on here, and therefore does not read all the posts, indeed it’s a waste of time. My registry was messed up because I didn’t read the necessary part of the necessary manual. And that’s because I didn’t know I needed to read it. Just like you’ve never read any instruction books for anything else… None of us know all the things we don’t know we don’t know. None of us have read the instruction we don’t know exists.
AND BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH TO READ ON BMS…
2. So therefore, the correct cleaner link that is in the middle of the thread, should be sticky at the top where Dunc has a link for 4.32 right at the top. Is it not reasonable to ignore all the chatter when a moderator if not one of the top moderators has posted something at the top?
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Hi,
I had the same problem on a Win7 64 bit.
Using the search function of REGEDIT with “falcon bms 4.33”, I found and delete a “benchmark sims” folder in “HKey_local_machine\software\wow6432node”
After that, i was able to reinstall 4.33 without error message.
Hope it can help.Thank you. This was helpful as I, like bipcopter above, could not find the specified path in the registry. Learned how to do a search in registry (never done that before) and voila! Found it. Deleted it. Installed clean copy of U1. Don’t really spend time in registry files as I simply don’t like mucking about there…not a computer guru but know enough to understand you could screw things up deleting the wrong thing. Thanks again.
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I had this issue also. The registry path that is specified is wrong. I had to do a search for “falcon” to find it. Everything is good to go for me and is working fantastic.
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Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who posted here. I had my install get corrupted when trying to get Israel in there, and this thread saved my butt!!! Thank you all!
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Tried everything but still didn’t work and the same message ‘’ The registry entry points to a folder that does not contain a valid Falcon BMS 4.33 U1 install please restore the missing files and try again or remove the registry entry (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Benchmark Sims\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1) to be able to install the product again. Path: D:\MicroProse\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1’’ Please solve tell me how to solve it please please please
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What OS you on??
You need to go into Regedit and delete the registry entry for Benchmark Sims.
You know how to do that??
C9
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Tried everything but still didn’t work and the same message ‘’ The registry entry points to a folder that does not contain a valid Falcon BMS 4.33 U1 install please restore the missing files and try again or remove the registry entry (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Benchmark Sims\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1) to be able to install the product again. Path: D:\MicroProse\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1’’ Please solve tell me how to solve it please please please
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Thanks Shadow, rescued me this evening after many wasted hours
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Great worked a treat thanks Dunc
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Thank you!
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I have the same problem with reinstalling BMS 4.33. I’m at my wits end, I don’t know how to fix it!!
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Um, use the files linked in the first post of this thread???
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I have the same problem with reinstalling BMS 4.33. I’m at my wits end, I don’t know how to fix it!!
Actually go here for 4.33u1/3 https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?29456-Reinstall-Issue-quot-The-Registry-Issue-quot-U3&p=411137&viewfull=1#post411137
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So does Dunc’s Clean_Public_BMS_4.32.zip on the first page no longer work for 4.33?
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It is a different path in the registry for 4.33 and 4.33u1
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Benchmark Sims\Falcon BMS 4.32]
Now its
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Benchmark Sims\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1]
It all started here https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?10640-Reinstalling-Issue-quot-The-registry-entry-quot&p=346624&viewfull=1#post346624