i need help please

hi there i got vista home premium with SP1 erlier this week and i cannot seem
to get FSX to run ..everytime i try it says it's side by side vonfiguration
is incoreect whatever the heck that means ...and i also cannot actiavte FSX
....anyone know what to do??

The only thing you need to do is download and install "Microsoft Visual C++
2005 Redistributable Package" or vcredist_x86 from microsoft download center
and it will work just fine. (well, for me it worked and for some people.)

"numgrol" <numgrol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B62EABFE-C40E-46C0-99B9-029AF70C3289@microsoft.com...
> hi there i got vista home premium with SP1 erlier this week and i cannot
> seem
> to get FSX to run ..everytime i try it says it's side by side
> vonfiguration
> is incoreect whatever the heck that means ...and i also cannot actiavte
> FSX
> ...anyone know what to do??

ok ... i tried that ...but each time i run the installer for the C++ package
it gets to the end of the installation and then it errors

"John A. Grundler" wrote:

> The only thing you need to do is download and install "Microsoft Visual C++
> 2005 Redistributable Package" or vcredist_x86 from microsoft download center
> and it will work just fine. (well, for me it worked and for some people.)
>
> "numgrol" <numgrol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B62EABFE-C40E-46C0-99B9-029AF70C3289@microsoft.com...
> > hi there i got vista home premium with SP1 erlier this week and i cannot
> > seem
> > to get FSX to run ..everytime i try it says it's side by side
> > vonfiguration
> > is incoreect whatever the heck that means ...and i also cannot actiavte
> > FSX
> > ...anyone know what to do??
>
>
>

"numgrol" <numgrol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7CAD936D-7E64-4647-9951-F1AD2295B09F@microsoft.com...
> ok ... i tried that ...but each time i run the installer for the C++
> package
> it gets to the end of the installation and then it errors
>
> "John A. Grundler" wrote:
>
>> The only thing you need to do is download and install "Microsoft Visual
>> C++
>> 2005 Redistributable Package" or vcredist_x86 from microsoft download
>> center
>> and it will work just fine. (well, for me it worked and for some people.)
>>
>> "numgrol" <numgrol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:B62EABFE-C40E-46C0-99B9-029AF70C3289@microsoft.com...
>> > hi there i got vista home premium with SP1 erlier this week and i
>> > cannot
>> > seem
>> > to get FSX to run ..everytime i try it says it's side by side
>> > vonfiguration
>> > is incoreect whatever the heck that means ...and i also cannot actiavte
>> > FSX
>> > ...anyone know what to do??
>>
>>
>>

Follow this one up in the *Vista* games group where there will be more
Vista-knowledgeable people. This is an XP group, per its title.