Solved BMS 4.36 and Windows
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I have a problem and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Key word “HAD” 4.36 with all of the updates along with Balkans campaign and 4.35 running through Alt. Launcher. TrackIR , WDP, and using the Alt. Launcher to program my WinWing HOTAS. Program was running great until Windows updated a few days ago. Alt. Launcher stopped loading as did 4.36. Wouldn’t even let me uninstall. I deleted (I think?) everything but 4.35 and original. Downloaded 4.36 “Full Installer” and it said it couldn’t see the original Falcon 4 program. Deleted 4.36 and then checked 4.35 which opened and runs without fail. Now I have 3 drives with system ops on “C”, Falcon 4 original on “D”, and BMS on “E”. Anybody have any ideas? It all worked fine until the update. My knowledge of computers is stuck back in 2000. Slowly learning this system I bought last year but to be honest I spent most of my free time flying and not exploring.
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@Tboneeodusmc first of all it might help to know what version of Windows… 10, 11, or ?
it’s probably not that but hard to say… I’ve heard of weird quirks with BMS on a different drive. I only have 1 drive so I can’t easily confirm or reproduce.
You might have to delete this registry key (or change it to point to the correct drive).
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Benchmark Sims\Falcon BMS 4.36]
(start/run RegEdit.exe and navigate to that path)
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It’s Windows 10. I did find an uninstall in a folder I didn’t know existed. Course now I have to go to work so I won’t be able to try again. Thanks for pointing me at the registry key. I don’t like to fool around in there because I’m afraid of screwing around and making a change that’ll require reloading the whole system.
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@airtex2019 Thanks for your help. I just got back from a small job for a friend so I wasn’t able to get back in and work on the problem. You were right and I had to go in and delete the registry key. Of course that was after renewing WinZip and loading the new version. Which also had a hidden file stopping me from reloading it. Still can’t figure out why everything went sideways after Windows updated.