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OK Mr Zippy, I have posted this problem on Simviation. I did so here in the hope I'd get something understandable.

"Control Panel-> Administrative Tools-> Event Viewer, select Custom Views-> Administrative Events.

One of the listed events will be for your CTD. The "Faulting Module" should point to the problem area."

Is your advice. I can get as far as 'Administrative Events' Where I see a whole lot of errors and warningd but none of them 'point' anywhere I understand. What's a CTD, and what's a faulting mobile - that sounds like the old cars I used to own when I was young!

All I'd like to do is completely wipe FSX from my PC but that seems impossible, uninstalling it seems to leave a lot behind and doesn't cure the blank screen when reinstalled.

I know it's a pain but I would appreciate advice an idiot like myself can follow.

Thanks for that pomak249 but I did say I can't get my head round that - I'm a bit of an old wrinkly at 81, the reason I'm bothering is because my grandson is keen to use FSX on my PC. I could have tackled this some years ago but my brain cells are shutting down though I'm not drooling yet!

Can any one help me out here, Googling is for people who still know what they're doing.

Last year my motherboard passed away. In replacing it I decided on a clean install of Windows 10 after more than ten happy years with Windows 7 of beloved memory!

Recently I got round to re-installing FSX which is the Delux Edition. Everything seemed fine, all the included aircraft 'flew' properly but then I decided to install an addon, a Caravelle as it happens.

The aircraft appeared as a grey ghost - no textures. I then remembered that some old files converted from FS9 didn't display properly if DX10 was selected in setup, so I unchecked it and the Caravelle displayed correctly.

I left it at that but the next time I started FSX it seemed to crash when I chose 'Fly' from the initial Free Flight screen - the display went blank but some music I was downstreaming continued.

I could not get the screen back by going into task manager and closing FSX, task manager didn't display. The only thing I can do is sign out and then sign in again to get Windows back.

Is this a registry problem or something else? How do I get round it? I have read the 'Before Posting' message but I can't get my head round it.