Can't access aircraft.cfg in Windows 7?

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vmx12

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Hello All,

I can't seem to open the aircraft.cfg folder in any of my aircraft - not even the default ones. It's asking me if I want to search the Web to find a program that will open it.

I am using Win7 Professional, with an i7 2600K processor, and I have NVIDIA's GTX570, if that means anything.

Please help?

~ Darrin
 
Are you trying to open them with Notepad? Also, I've heard that 7 can be problematic unless you're using the Administrator account.
 
Thanks, Willy! I just tried Notepad and it works! Whew!

Seems it simply needed to be activated to open in Notepad, as I can open all aircraft cfg's now.

I appreciate it!

DJ
 
BTW, I normally use Wordpad for cfg and txt files, rather than Notepad. It handles large files better, the searching is much faster, and works better (in my opinion). The only caveat is that you must save the file as you opened it, in text format. If you paste in anything else it will warn you that formatting will be lost - you *want* it to be lost.

Hope this helps,
 
I usually use wordpad, but these are small files really, so either is OK. I am currently having fits on my laptop with saving, to save I have to close it and then it will ask if I want to save.

Works though... T
 
Tom & Tom, thanks for the tip on Wordpad. I'd been using Notepad since the old CFS 1 days, but those .cfg files are a lot bigger these days and as I keep adding paints in some aircraft, they darn sure are getting bigger.
 
Glad to help. It's particularly handy with things like flight plan text files, which can be quite large. Searching large files in Notepad can take minutes, while in Wordpad it's a fraction of a second.
 
I use notepad, searching is easy. Menu/edit/find... takes only seconds. Can search for letters or long word strings.


Edit, Tom G. You are right about large flightplans, Notepad can take awhile with them. Will have to try wordpad for flightplans.
 
It has not been mentioned here yet, but if you happen to just start building this particular FS installation and it's not located outside of the Program Files folder of Windows you might want to consider moving it to something like C:\FS9 or whatever name you like.

It greatly helps with all sorts of file access issues linked to W7

Cheers
Stefan
 
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