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fl9
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 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:02 pm |
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Hi all,
I've downloaded the demo, 'successfully' installed it, but when I click on the shortcut, I get an error message saying:
'The MSXML4 SP2 component is not installed. Please reinstall FS to restore or repair this missing component.'
I've uninstalled and reinstalled but it still happens. Can someone PLEEEEEASE tell me what's gone wrong here??? 
(I copied & pasted the msxml.dll file from my fs9 into the fsx demo folder but that doesn't help either)
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RadarMan
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fl9
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:26 pm |
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Thanks for the reply.
I don't even know what SP2 is.
I deleted an 'msxml4' folder (though it contained nothing) then downloaded and installed msxml4 again but the problem's still there.
To be honest I'm totally baffled. I was sooo looking forward to see the difference between fs9 and fsx. |
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cheechm
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:01 pm |
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SP2 is service pack 2. For instance you get XP SP1/SP2Captain Nick  |
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RadarMan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:18 pm |
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Go to the top of the browser and click on help and about internet explorer.
That will tell you SP1 or SP2.
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USSSS
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:31 pm |
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| No it's not a problem with Windows SP2. It's a problem with MicroSoft XML |
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fl9
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| Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:28 am |
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Now I really don't know what to do
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CrashGordon
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mrvegas
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:24 pm |
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I have this same exact problem... any fix for it yet?
I dont want to buy the game and not be able to use it man.
thanks |
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RadarMan
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| Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:49 pm |
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mrvegas wrote:I have this same exact problem... any fix for it yet?
I dont want to buy the game and not be able to use it man.
thanks
Do you have SP1 and 2 installed?
Go to Windows update and download all updates, including .Net if you need to.
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gratch38
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:55 am |
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Hey guys.....
I have the same issue...cant get Flightsimx demo to run
"The MSXML4 SP2 component is not installed. Please reinstall Flight Simulator to restore or repair this missing component."
Its not missing....i can see it Add/Remove programs as succesfully installed....must be a bug with the demo itself.
Hopefully a fix/patch will be issued soon as i wont by a game if the Demo dont work!!!!!
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fl9
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:53 pm |
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Just downloaded the new demo, installed it and.....
same error message 
Any new advice, anyone, pleeeeese!?!?! |
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NandoBCF
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:06 am |
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Same problem here too.
I've got Windows XP SP2, the final FSX demo and the same error about missing MSXML 4 component...
Don't know what to do... |
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RadarMan
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gratch38
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:43 pm |
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Same with me ..have the new demo but still get the same error.
Have tried instlaiing Msxlm again but still no go.
If you look at the System event logs there is a reference to msxml 2 (sidebyside) error before the msxml4 error....
NOT GOOD ENOUGH Microsoft...
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fl9
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:53 pm |
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I've read all that about MSXML sp2 and it means nothing to me tbh...
I'm seriously doubting even buying FSX now, if this isn't fixed
Suppose I'm gonna have to contact Microsoft and wait next year for a reply.... 
Thanks anyway... |
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NandoBCF
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:16 pm |
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just solved the MSXML problem!!!
Don't know exactly how, but this is what I did:
1- Installed the MSXML 4 SP2 from microsoft's website
2- Uninstalled FSX demo
3- Reinstalled FSX demo
now it works! |
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Help
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:29 pm |
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| Yes, but how do you install that programme? Exactly because i don't know how to. |
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cptn-hansolo
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:10 am |
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Tried installing, uninstalling, different hotfixes but canīt fix this issue...
Letīs hope that they fix this bug in full version.
anyone got any more ideas? |
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Hansoloswe
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:06 pm |
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A possible solution.
I searched for all files on my PC with msxml4*.* and deleted them and renamed the ones that i couldnīt delete
Rebooted the PC.
Then I reinstalled the distribution of msxml that came with the demo.
Too bad im at work and doing it by remote desktop so i canīt be sure it works, but i donīt ge the same msxml4 sp2 error anymore. So it seems like it has fixed the problem.
//Micke, sweden |
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fl9
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:31 pm |
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Hansoloswe wrote:A possible solution.
I searched for all files on my PC with msxml4*.* and deleted them and renamed the ones that i couldnīt delete
//Micke, sweden
That's like 50 files!! Will that not do something bad to my PC?? |
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gratch38
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:22 pm |
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Guys,
I just installed the latest batch of security updates from Microsoft..
Guess what???? Flightsimx now works...
Very Bizzare...
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CrashGordon
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:42 pm |
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gratch38 wrote:Guys,
I just installed the latest batch of security updates from Microsoft..
Guess what???? Flightsimx now works...
Very Bizzare...
Gratch
Let me guess. You finally installed SP2. How many years has that been available. People who do not keep their security updates current, should not be allowed on the internet. They are a danger to everyone else and don't even realize it.
Now, if I am wrong, which updates did you actually install??CrashGordon
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gratch38
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:01 pm |
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Hi..
you are wrong i am afraid....i'be been fully patched with SP2 since its release.
The updates that installed were
Security Update for Windows XP (KB924191) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB922819) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB923414) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB924496) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework, Version 2.0 (KB922770) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Security Update for Windows XP (KB923191) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
SQL Server Feature Pack MSXML 6.0 RTM Security Update (925673) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
Windows XP Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - October 2006 (KB890830) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
SQL Server Feature Pack MSXML 4.0 SP2 Security Update (925672) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
Windows Defender Definition Update 1.14.1720.4 for BETA Windows Defender (KB915597)
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fl9
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:41 am |
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gratch38 wrote:
SQL Server Feature Pack MSXML 4.0 SP2 Security Update (925672) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates
 ^^^^^^ This is the bad boy!!!
Thanks. All works now.
p.s. I've always had SP2, and always updated. I don't know why I had to manually update this time but oh well.... |
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gratch38
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:02 am |
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Glad to have been able to help FL9...thats the one that worked for me. 
Crashgordon...dont be so quick to criticise...as you can see it was nothing to do with XP Service Pack 2
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CrashGordon
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:18 pm |
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gratch38 wrote:Glad to have been able to help FL9...thats the one that worked for me.
Crashgordon...dont be so quick to criticise...as you can see it was nothing to do with XP Service Pack 2
Gratch
True,but SQL Server Feature Pack MSXML 4.0 SP2 Security Update (925672) 11 October 2006 Automatic Updates is post hoc, ergo propter hoc. If that were truly the problem, then many people would have experienced difficulty prior to October 11th.CrashGordon
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gratch38
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| Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:19 pm |
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many people have expericanced the same error...
Try Googling it crashgordon..you will see its a worldwide issue..
Spain, norway, germany,eastern europe...all the same msxml error.
Words from my contacts in Microsoft is that an msxml component may have been broken prior to he Flightsimx install...but nothing changes the fact that it was an xml error..not a SP2 error.
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CrashGordon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:53 am |
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gratch38 wrote:you will see its a worldwide issue..
Spain, norway, germany,eastern europe...all the same msxml error.
It's a small world, after all.  CrashGordon
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Gratch38
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| Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:31 am |
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fair point crash..'ill add Australia as well...at least my comment thens flys out of Europe ...
Anyway...lets enjoy Flightsimx now that the demo is working.
See you in the air CrashG
Gratch. |
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