Double startup

[GaryJ]

Hi Fellas, FS9 has developed a strange problem. When any aircraft is started a second startup sequence happens about 1 second after. So you will here a single engined plane crank up twice, or a four engine becomes eight
never happened before on XP but now running windows 7
Any ideas????

Gary

[GaryJ]

I seem to have baffled everybody
Just discovered if i press Ctrl, Alt, Del it shows that two fs2004's are running at the same time...god knows how or why
Any ideas now?

[DaveB]

Ah dear mate.. as soon as you mentioned Win7 I gave up A lot here are using it now so with luck, one of them might be able to shed some light on the problem. How the heck you're managing to have 2 instances of FS9 running at the same time is a mystery in itself as to the best of my knowledge, this wasn't possible (at least in WinXP where I still languish). Win7 is a different monster though

Sri I can't be of any help on this one

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Anyone fancy modelling a 'Wailing Wall'

Should be very popular methinks

Nedds to be a strong one

[petermcleland]

Gary,

I presume that CTRL+ALT+DEL will show two instances of FS9 running...Can you not select one of them and then press the End Task button?

If that gets it working normally then you need to find out how the second one started up...Do you have a Desktop short cut to start it?...Is it underlined to show that only a single click is required?...If so then are you double clicking it?

[TSR2]

I didn't think you could run two instances of FS at the same time?

[GaryJ]

I didn't think it possible run it twice, but deffo shows as two...If i close one down they both shut.

I think i can see myself reinstalling XP and go back to where everything worked proper

[Garry Russell]

I've had many cases of two open at once......but not two running at once.

I've always done what Peter suggests with the Task Manager.

[GaryJ]

Thanks Garry, at least i'm closer to the answer

[DaveB]

I don't know how you could do that Garry to be honest as to all intents, open IS running. Try it in XP and you get the same old box that hasn't been changed for years saying something like flightsim/CFS is already running and that's as far as it'll go. I don't know enough about the nuances of Win7 (anything about them to be honest) but (and this has just shot into my head so is almost certainly BLX).. as you do a lot of soundsets for FS, might the prog you use to edit the sounds in some way link to FS as well as the soundfile so that when you start FS, you get a double helping via some back door courtesy of the soundfile/sound editing suite?? It almost made sense when I thought about it but now I read it on the screen.. I'm dubious

Something to have a laugh over if nothing else

ATB

DaveB