Editing aircraft.cfg's in Windows 7...

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idancesafetydance

Charter Member
Well... Just installed Windows 7 a while back, and need to do some .cfg editing. I right clicked on it, and selected "edit" as I usually did in Vista, I did my work and clicked the shiny red "close" button. When it asked me to save I selected yes as usual. But then it asked me where to save it, I knew something was up by now. When I tried to save it, boom, it said Access was denied. Can't even save it somewhere else and copy and paste it in. I have full admin rights to my PC. So what's the deal? Can't edit .cfg's in Windows 7?
 
Navigate to your root Flight Simulator X folder -> Right click folder -> Properties -> Security tab -> Edit -> Add... -> type your Windows username -> OK -> select Allow checkbox for Full control -> OK or Apply.
 
make sure you select your user and not admin too.

For example I have 'Lewis/Administrator' and 'Lewis/User' then allow all under edit.

So long as you select user all is well in the land of editing :ernae:
 
Alright, I'll try it out guys, thanks for the feedback. I built this machine with my own hands, yet I never thought about Orion or Lewis' suggestions.
 
Other option - Find User Access Control (its in the Action Center) and turn it off and also turn off notifications.

Glenn
 
It was exactly this type of thing that tempeted me to see how many times I could skip a Vista laptop across the local pond......

They need a "It's my #&^$@@ computer" option.....

T.
 
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