Everybody - I finally after almost 3 weeks finally figured out what the problem was,, it turned out to be a Windows Docking problem,, within Flight Simulator,,,, I just Right Clicked, a menu screen came up,,,, and I Undocked it,,,, and PRESTO' all my little windows for my throttle Quadrants, GPS, Compass etc,, started coming back up again,,,,, keep that in your Fix it notes !!!! I have FSX Gold edition. Windows 7,, on a new computer with 6 GB,,,, thanks everybody !!  Dave / Jetranger