Aaagh, The Client and Windows strike again
Posted: 09 Jul 2010, 16:08
Afternoon All,
Well after the best part of 7 hours while flying a VC10 from OMDB to EGLL, I landed, taxied to the gate and then applied the parking brake. The client gave the ping and the green ticker tape message across the top of the screen.
I minimized windows in order to end the flight and exit the client, lo and behold the client was gone. I normally minimize the client as I tend to like a clean desktop when I come out of FS for whatever reason. Progs like FS and Active sky minimize to the program bar at the bottom but FSA insists on minimizing to the notification bar at the side of the clock.
I have by the way used this method for about my last 500 or so flights so have not had this issue before, but when I came to the desktop, on this occasion the client was gone (No Icon in the area). If I Ctrl-Alt-Deleted I could see that the client was running as a process but not as an application. Therefore I know of no way to get into the client to click on the end flight button and also I had to stop the process and lose all of the flight.
Normally I wouldn't mind but after 7 hours? Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know how I could have got the client back?
Oh well back to Flight Sim and time to do it all again.
Cheers
Andy
Well after the best part of 7 hours while flying a VC10 from OMDB to EGLL, I landed, taxied to the gate and then applied the parking brake. The client gave the ping and the green ticker tape message across the top of the screen.
I minimized windows in order to end the flight and exit the client, lo and behold the client was gone. I normally minimize the client as I tend to like a clean desktop when I come out of FS for whatever reason. Progs like FS and Active sky minimize to the program bar at the bottom but FSA insists on minimizing to the notification bar at the side of the clock.
I have by the way used this method for about my last 500 or so flights so have not had this issue before, but when I came to the desktop, on this occasion the client was gone (No Icon in the area). If I Ctrl-Alt-Deleted I could see that the client was running as a process but not as an application. Therefore I know of no way to get into the client to click on the end flight button and also I had to stop the process and lose all of the flight.
Normally I wouldn't mind but after 7 hours? Has this happened to anyone else and does anyone know how I could have got the client back?
Oh well back to Flight Sim and time to do it all again.
Cheers
Andy
