After having problems with FPS on MS Flight Sim and trying various ways to resolve without any success I decided to uninstall and re install. However, when I used the uninstall facility it pointed at an addon programme for Flightsim. I carried on with the uninstall thinking it maybe needed to uninstall the addon first but it only removed the addon and not flightsim. Although it appears in the start menu the uninstall.exe now no longer exists and I cannot uninstall the programme. My questions are, will I have to manually uninstall? and could this have been part of my problem with frame rates in the first place? is it somekind of registry error?
I have a 3.4 pentium with 2.0gb ram running XP home.

Hi Trev
I recommend you download install Crap Cleaner from www.ccleaner.com
Untick the Cookies and History box before you start ,otherwise you'll lose all your log-in data OK
Next,Run the cleaner by pressing the "analyse" button first to scan the hard drive (will take several Minutes for the first timers)
It will produce about 1 GB+ (or more?) of files than can be removed safely (looks deeper than Windows own cleaner)
When this is shown click the "Run Cleaner" button on the right
Will ask for a Back up to be produced?(if you accidently remove a critical file?) But I always say No (up to you?)
Next look to the left and click the Issues Button (this is the Registry Cleaner section) I think its a "No brainer" All I do is press the "scan for Issues" button and it looks for Non working and redundant links. Next I press the Other button "Fix selected issues..." (and then the "Fix all" button on the next page
and the Jobs done
Moving on Uninstalling programs...Never tried This section OK
This Program also Duplicates the XP Control Panels Uninstall function
Just click on the Tools icon to open up the program list .Find and Highlight the program you wish to Uninstall then click the "Run uninstaller" button (Top of List) ...From here you are on your own.I don't know if the program deletes the program, or it activates the Uninstall routine?
Let us know what happens?
The good thing I like about this program is it clears that much, the computer does speed up, Couple this with a Defrag, and it runs almost like New And unbelieveably it is Freeware
Here is a review of this Product
www.webuser.co.uk/products/CCleaner_126_review_2899.html (Has been updated since...even better now )
PS If it is still there after running this then
A Hijackthis log may have to be compiled (easy to do)
But that will have to go elsewhere (is an experts area)
Let us know and we'll get everything back to Normal ASAP?

Thanks for the link, looks a useful prog. It removed some components but I still had to manually uninstall the rest before I could re install. I now have a clean install of Flightsim but still getting poor frame rates. I have the latest drivers for my Geforce 5500 and with 2.0gb ram on a 3.4 pentium I would not be expecting FPS problems.

2 Gb Ram and still down on Performance!
Dwight or somebody might have a better suggestion
My guess would be the either the Harddrive's Virtual Drive is setup in a manual (fixed level) not on AutoMatic (will point you to the setting controls if you like?)
And/or Internet Explorers Temp File cache is set too small .
Try this First:
Go to Internet Explorer Properties. Then locate Temporary Internet files >Settings button
Move the slide bar (on the next page) only 2 notches Max from the left and note the number in the box it should be about 10% of the drive capacity on The Hard drive ( Mine is set to 2000MB(notch 1 plus fine tuning on the numberbox buttons) thats for a 40 GB drive with 1 GB RAM Looks like you could do double that Number 4000 Mb?
Press Ok to Set & exit
Just a rough estimate(trial & error)
Lets us know if that Livens things up?
Beyond this the only thing is there is a latency issue with the server (which is not your fault) I connect to some servers and they do lag badly(Traffic or No) despite being on Broadband Think they use outdated equipment?
The Seti site has been on and off for months with an outage issue like this
Their Server setup from their logs seen to be a massive lashup of odd items.. mostly old , odd brand new, borrowed (from elsewhere in the Faculty ) also mismatched
My Log of workunits is all over the place and the majority of us (500,000 subscribers)are tumbling down the league lists all in red Numbers(green numbers indicate a "rise")been like this since end of November when the system went down for over a week then has been "off and on" for a few days hence the jerky graphs

I've just opened the computer magazine tips pages and there is a tip you can try Before going deep into the settings and making alterations(may give you some respite?)
Open Internet Explorer Internet options or Properties
Click the "Advanced" tab (on the right side)
Scroll all the way down the list, now look above the items marked "use SSL 2.0" and "use SSL 3.0" OK?
Tick the box that says "Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder when Browser is closed" then press the Apply then the Close buttons to enable the setting
All I think It will do is ease the Bloat that builds up if you are online for a long length of time and remains for the next session
You will not lose any data these are held in the History files and cookies (different areas)
Of course if the issue continues, then use my earlier idea

Thanks for all the help, still have frame rate problems in Flightsim. I have notice in system info that something is taking out approx .5gb ram in resources even though I have used a start up manager to keep things down to a minimum. I do run Zonelabs system suite and Webroot window washer/spysweeper but I cannot think of what could be using that amount of resources. Any ideas anyone?

Right click on the bottom bar and select Task Manager>click processes tab then click the CPU column header to show what Resources percentage the programs on the computer is using (Highest will be on the top)
The startup list also may want trimming?(background running program that run all the time)
PS If you are an ICQ subscriber then always exit the program when not in use. This is a massive resource eater
Windows Messenger can also be turned off via a plugin on Ad-Aware (1 click) or in the XP Security Controls (awkward to find)