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Nada. It won't work for a printer test. You'll have to have a copy of Win 7 for a VMware install.

Well, I tried in vain to find a program that actually works to compare two DLLs. I'm going to do some more research. I used Resource hacker to look at the DLL and I don't see anything out of the ordinary. But I need a non-hex DLL comparison program just to see the differences. Opa probably used Resource Hacker to make this DLL.

Okay, thanks.

If you're on Win 10, then you're gonna need one of those programs to help stop updates once and for all.

You're welcome.

Using a credit card or online banking can be safe, but it doesn't go without saying that one needs to be prudent and proactive with their security on their computer or devices. Many people just aren't very computer savvy so you can fall victim to attack very easily. What it amounts to is read, read, and read some more and learn how the bad guys do it and then you'll know how to protect yourself in various ways. Then you have companies that profit on not too savvy computer users by selling protects that claim to "protect you" from this or that. Truth is, if you have the knowledge already, you don't need that product and/or can use free products, etc to help protect yourself. To me, it's all about common sense and logic.

I've always wondered if there was an add-on to do just that. Now my questions: Can I set it up to use my Area-51 creation to have a restricted zone? And does it fire on AI? That would be so cool to see overflying AI get shot done. LOL

If you want to test the printers in a Windows 7 environment, then you can try a VMware image of 7. You'd launch the VMware instance which is called a guest operating system and try to print. It may or may not work seen is how this is a virtual environment. If itr prints in 7 and not 10 you'll no for sure what to blame. :D https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ I'm downloading that right now to see if it will work for your test. If it doesn't, what you need is a Win 7 install disk or the Win 7 download and use that to create the VMware OS install. You don't even need to add a product key since I think it's 90 days until you have to. On the subject of printers. I have heard Brother makes a good printer, but you'll want to compare and contrast reviews. If you use Amazon, use fakespot to see whether the reviews have any deception. Fakespot will give you a deception review grade. This is NOT a product grade, only a review grade on the quality of the reviews and if they can be trusted. A lot of companies pay people to write phony positive reviews so Fakespot weeds that out and lets you know with a grade A-F. It'll even work with Yelp and other sites. https://www.fakespot.com/ Use more than one site for review comparisons. Even eBay. Another thing. I've read that laser printers use way less ink than a money stealing cartridge. I used to work for a computer and printer recycling company and I dealt with printer cartridges all day. For a laser printer the ink is actually called toner, a large toner cartridge. They are A LOT more expensive, but should last a lot longer. Plus, they don't dry up. It's a powder, really. I looked like a coal miner after my shift at work. I've also heard HP makes a great printer, but again, do your research. sudo -back_on_topic

To all those that tried to visit my site and got blocked I apologize. Last night at around 12 AM MDT I installed a new security module for a script I use. Well, I just looked at my logs and saw a bunch of legit traffic getting blocked. I have since removed the module and cleared the ban list.

Oh! Saigon isn't Saigon anymore. It's Ho Chi Minh City. Flew there a number of times. :D

NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpBMfg_QHuU HAHAHA

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I the Sim, a couple F-16's or what ever won't meet up with you, in real life, yes. :D

What's a road atlas? What's a phone book? What's a phone booth? How do I make a call on a rotary phone? :D

It could have been a driver update. It would be prudent to stop Windows from updating your drivers automatically and let yourself go directly to the manufacturer for the driver. Whether that be for the GPU, a printer, etc. Read here: https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/disable-automatic-driver-downloads-on-windows-10

This is really off topic to the nature of this particular subform, but I'll just go ahead and chime in anyway in hopes perhaps it's moved to the OM. First and foremost. Use multiple email addresses for different things. Use one email addy for your bank, PayPal, eBay, Amazon, etc. The real serious stuff. Then use another email addy for forum sign ups, other online sign ups, stuff like that. This way if you get spam you can more than likely know what the vector is. If you get spam in your financial email addy, then either a website got their database stolen ( happens all the time it seems), some moron on eBay sold your addy out to someone for spam, someone who sold you something on eBay got their email contacts list jacked, or you in fact acquired a virus that got your own contacts jacked. Moving on, I use Thunderbird as my mail client of choice. And with Thunderbird or any email client I use or on my phone I make sure to turn off the parsing of HTML content and never load images by default. If you allow HTML parsing, that stuff can and will infect your machine. If you allow images to load, those send back to the hosting server your IP address. I can even send someone a 1x1 pixel image in an email you won't even see and grab that person's IP address. Then it's off to Shodan or Censys, NMAP scans, and all that rot. To make matters worse, if you're like most people and don't stay abreast of router or modem firmware updates, chances are your modem or router can now become a zombie bot for lack of the proper term now. Letting the hacker use your IP address for all kinds of things. And you are responsible for what emanates from your IP. Not to mention they can now see all the unencrypted traffic flowing though your router/modem and do things to your computer. Even with encrypted traffic you can just poison the ARP and perform a MITM attack, etc. So in a nutshell, don't allow the loading of images or the parsing of HTML content by default unless you trust the sender and verified the address. Also, scan all attachments at Virus Total. Another thing is that if you use PGP in your email, parsing HTML content can get your PGP password jacked. On the subject of routers and modems. While staying abreast of any and all firmware updates, don't use the default username and password for the router/modem, turn off UPnP and don't use port forwarding unless you absolutely have to. And if you do, I highly recommend getting a nettop with at least 4 GB of RAM and install the PFsense firewall. Then install Snort. Why do all this. Just have a look at the power of Shodan and you'll know why. I have an account there and do all kinds of research and what have you. The things I see are pretty scary. Here's what I do if and when I get the occasional spam email. I immediately report the headers to the spamcop website. That helps get the ball rolling on placing that email domain on a blacklist. Also, I forward the email to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) for spam reporting. Read about that here on my site: https://cyberpcforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=568 Also read here on a pretty funny spam email I got: https://cyberpcforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1667#p1667 Pretty clever in it's scare tactics, but since I'm pretty damn computer savvy and the big tip off was the wording, I knew it was BS. The spam you're getting now is probably some loser trying to get money out of you in one way or another. It's just a build up right now to get you to respond. And stupid people do it all the time and lose thousands of dollars in the process. In addition to spamcop, you could do a WHOIS on the email domain and report the spam to the website/hosting provider. Though, some don't even care. I'm looking at you Digital Ocean who's ASNs are blocked in CloudFlare from ever touching my site. LOL Long story short, learn the trade and you can protect yourself against it's evil doings. That's pretty much what it's all about. Here's a website you can use to test links you may get in emails. Though, you may want to at least use Sandboxie or the Qubes OS. https://www.browserling.com/ Also, check out protonmail. I pay for their bridge support with Thunderbird and use the App. Great way to stay private and secure, well, one can only hope. True security in my opinion is that which you roll your own and manage your own withen the governance of your house. LOL That's why I roll a personal Team Speak server with encryption from home. Whatsapp and all that crap? Forgetaboutit. Though, I will use Wire from time to time for less sensitive matters. :pilot::cool::D

You wouldn't happen to have duplicate airports installed, would you? Fire up Everything.exe, type in the ICAO in the search field and see if more than one AFCAD exists. https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/ Note that some airports have an ICAO name for the BGL, but those may also be for objects, etc. So do some sleuthing and best guessing or drag the BGL into ADE and see if it displays the airport. If not, you have an object BGL placement file.

At first thought it sounds like the taxi or runway paths because that's in fact what AI follow. I can't say I ever experienced this behavior before. And when I make AFCADs that I upload here that have runways like that, I make sure to draw a correct taxi path on the outcrop pavement so to speak from the runway so AI use it as they should. And then I test my creation looking for errors and I see AI use the taxi paths like they should in real life. I really don't know what's going on here. I'd have to look at the AFCAD and see if three's something there that the AI is following. Any particular airports here in the library that exhibit this behavior so I can have a look at them? Common sense, logic and reason just dictates to me AI is following some ghost path. Because what ever path is there that's what AI will follow. Though, perhaps there's like a buffer zone or something left and right of aircraft centerline that they can maneuver back and fourth from beyond the taxi/runway paths.

Oh! Aircraft choice! I'd go with a B1900 C or D variant myself. Good fuel range, speed and cruise altitude. I like the D model cockpit myself. I have the PMDG B1900C/D planes and I retrofitted the RealityXP weather radar and SANDEL TAWS (Terrain Alert Warning System) into the cockpit in its rightful places using FS Panel Studio. I even had a gauge that played automatic flight attendant announcements. I think that gauge mostly worked on AGL elevation, speed and flap positions as triggers to when one announcement was spoke vs another. I had to do some fine tuning with the XML code for the gauge with what little understanding I have of XML code. But I managed to get it down pretty good for a nice flow of cabin announcements. It did trip on flying over the Rocky Mountains though. I'd get an announcement from a flight attendant about preparing to land, but I was no where near the airport on approach. Too bad the XML logic didn't incorporate other variables to determine if you were on approach based on a possible ILS, or ILS DME if present. I'm sure you could even use some code based on runway distance so long as you programed what runway you were landing at with such and such airport. That code exists in my WAAS gauge I have in my F-22. It creates an artificial ILS if a runway doesn't have one. So I can pretty much land where ever in my F-22 providing I have at least 2500-3000 feet of runway. Absent of a B1900 you can get here in the library, you could go payware and fly this aircraft: https://pmdg.com/pmdg-bae-jetstream-4100-for-fsx/ Wikipedia indicates it has a range of 774 NM, cruise altitude of FL260, and cruise speed of 260 knots/340 MPH.

So looking at my FSX install, I see that it places the scenery.cfg in the following directories: In the main folder of FSX. Mine is C:\FSX C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX So with that, just replace FSX with FS9 and perhaps this is where FS2004 also keeps all of the scenery.cfg files at.

As promised, I jumped on my desktop and looked at the window for the default GPS in the 737. This is what it looks like: [Window02] size_mm=456,378 window_size=0.5 position=8 BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0 VISIBLE=0 ident=GPS_PANEL gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0 Note the ident=. This tells what window to pop up. If you don't what to use a key combination to launch a window, then you'll need to add the GPS simicon to the cockpit somewhere. The entry for the 737 looks like this: gauge31=SimIcons1024!GPS Icon, 543,448,19,19 Replace gauge31 with the right number on down the line from other installed gauges. The numbers 543,448 are the coordinates of where the little icon appears, and the numbers 19,19 describe the size of the little icon. I thought perhaps the ident of GPS_PANEL would have a key combination, but I looked in the controls are there is none. So it relies on a simicon button press to launch the window containing the GPS, or you can use a key combination like what was described above to open that particular window number that holds the GPS.

I had no idea Fiat manufactured planes. And what an odd design at that.

I just realized this is a FS2004 thread. I currently don't have FS2004 installed, only FSX so I can't see what paths have the scenery.cfg file present. I know there's more than one spot where this files exists. Edit- Doing a little reading it looks like the scenery.cfg file is located in the main FS2004 install folder. So if found in one of your shadow copies, this is where it should be placed if missing. Something else that crossed my mind is that I wonder if your install registry key path isn't correct. You can try this tool to help fix that. http://www.flight1software.com/files/FS_Registry_Repair.exe https://www.flight1.com/view.asp?page=library As always, scan ALL of your downloads at Virus Total. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

Okay, I have two possible ways to get the scenery.cfg file back if it is fact missing like the pop up states. A) Try a system restore point when you had no issues. B) Use Shadow Copy View to search for a backup of the scenery.cfg stored in your shadow copies. To find a file in one of your shadow copies, first pick a shadow copy from the list in the top box. Then click on the find icon shown in my screenshot and type in scenery.cfg. If that particular shadow copy doesn't have it, try another one in the list. They are all numbered. Once found, right click and copy it.Then you'll paste it back into its rightful directory. Off the top of my head it's in appdata/microsoft/fs2004. I'll have to check my desktop. This directory is hidden so you'll need to go into the folder options of the Windows control panel and tick show hidden files. Another way to find the right directory is to run Everything.exe and search for FS9.cfg. Then right click that and open its path. In that folder containing FS9.cfg is where the scenery.cfg file should be placed I do believe. But now that I think of it, there may be more than one location. When I get on my desktop I'll have a look and respond.

By far the best program you can use to add gauges and what not is FS Panel Studio. Editing the VC with FS Panel Studio takes a little know how however, especially with third-party aircraft, but it can be done. I once added small flight attendant announcement buttons to the overhead of my FS2004 PMDG 737. And with editing the VC in there it was like they had an invisible mask over the VC panel. So I had to note its coordinates and move it to the side so that I can add things inside the cockpit. Then place the invisible shroud back in place where it was before. So with that, you may encounter such a situation yourself if you edit third-party aircraft with FS Panel Studio. If you add the GPS manually you can assign a panel ID that matches that of the GPS simicon panel ID launch button. I think if you do that, the default key combination in FSX to launch the GPS will be activated thus your window with the GPS will pop up. Typically, you'd use a simicon that has a preset panel ID attached to it in its XML code. You'd place that simicon in your cockpit somewhere and when you press that little simicon button it will launch the windows containing your gauge that has that panel ID set. Be it a GPS or weather radar, etc. I'm on my laptop right now, but when I get on my desktop I'll have a look at the panel ID for the default GPS and let you know what it is and give you a panel example to show how it's placed in the panel.cfg file. With that ID, your FSX key combination setting for the default GPS should launch your new window for the GPS to display. That is unless the third-party aircraft already uses that panel ID for something else. It's not without the realm of possibility. If that turns out to be the case you'll have to use a different panel ID with a simicon placed in your cockpit to launch the GPS.