Small Suggestion for FsP 2.0

[WBHoenig]

I have just though of a small suggestion for FsP 2.0 (or 1.1 or 1.5 or whatever Dan calls it). I am the type of person who constantly reformats his
computer and reinstalls one or more operating systems - and by constantly, I mean about once a month. That means I am always backing everything up on
an 80GB external USB2.0 hard drive. Usually all I export is Documents (formerly My Documents), Pictures, and Music (both of which used to be under
the purview of My Documents, but I run Vista now ), and of course, my FsP stuff. I was just thinking that it would be cool if the FsP stuff that is
backed up (e.g. database, config, config_va, et cetera) could be stored in the Flight Simulator Files folder in Documents. Then, I would have
a few less folders to worry about forgetting.

Also, to all the complainers about spouses hijacking FsP - this way, you could have a separate user account for them to hijack (with yours heavily
password protected) and yours would be safely stuck in a password protected, possibly encrypted, folder. A win-win situation

[Airliner]

I am the type of person who constantly reformats his computer and reinstalls one or more operating systems

THANK YOU! Please tell my wife that I'm NOT crazy!

By the way, how do you get around the activation thing with XP, if you're running it? I recall something about saving off a file and popping it
back in after re-installing but, I lost the link. I want to reinstall again soon because I completely screwed up my page file - also might be
getting a new HDD setup in which case I'll have to re-install.

[42jeff]

Why not just delete it and reestablish?

[WBHoenig]

Airliner wrote:

I am the type of person who constantly reformats his computer and reinstalls one or more operating systems

THANK YOU! Please tell my wife that I'm NOT crazy!

By the way, how do you get around the activation thing with XP, if you're running it? I recall something about saving off a file and popping it
back in after re-installing but, I lost the link. I want to reinstall again soon because I completely screwed up my page file - also might be
getting a new HDD setup in which case I'll have to re-install.

As long as you haven't changed your hardware up much, you can reactivate it as many times as you want on the same computer. And you still can, too,
if you messed with your hardware, but you have to 're-activate' it in your current installation.

But activation (and DRM, for that matter) should be illegal. It is easy to get around; more than likely it kills off more loyal customers to Linux and OS X (like me ) than it prevents piracy



Post Edited ( 12-06-06 23:40 )