Hi all,
I did a system restore and had to  reinstalled the 737.  Now only a couple switches work, all gauges dead, and no response to joy stick.   Here's what I've done to try and remedy the problem. Hopefully someone will have some suggestions.

1) Downloaded two different installers. I "run as administration" when installing
2) Gone to regedit and taken out the 732 and 730
3) Turned off user control
4) Open FSX with "run as administator.
5) got the latest install for the 732 (cps 732_1000exe) from CS website.
6) started with 172 before selecting 737

Where is the repair option located on the 732 installer? On the old Cs installers you were given the option after the license agreement page. The 732 installer doesn't give you a repair/remove option unless I'm not looking in the right place. Not on the 3rd page where it used to be. I ran as admin. and still couldn't find the option anywhere. Would love to try a repair but.......maybe it's not available for reinstalls?

All my other planes are working fine including all other CS planes. I have a couple files left over from Paul's V-0ne gauge and his battery drain fix in FSX>gauges, FSX>fonts, FSX sounds. I took all them out. No change. Shouldn't have an effect on this problem anyway. Seems like more of a installer issue than anything. Any ideas that I haven't tried? Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Cheers,
Brian

Hi Mark,
The repair screen does not come up on the installer, anywhere. It goes from Welcome>license agreement> activation method>how to find order #> submit activation> then starts installing.
On my other CS installers, the option usually comes up after the license agreement but not on the 737_1000exe installer I've now downloaded twice.

Are taking about a FSX or 737 reinstall ? If you're talking about a complete 737, I've done that 3 times now after clearing the registry of 732 and 730 files.  
 I did save the 732 folder that had all the changes I made before the restore and installed it after reinstalling the 737 but that didn't help.

And thanks so much for your help.

Brian

Thanks Lex,
I uninstalled 737, removed all reminiscence, ran Ccleaner a couple time to fix registry errors, reinstalled, still no luck.
Might be time to do a complete FSX reinstall just the same. I've had FSX for close to 3 years now. Never done one. I do have a couple other unresolved issues as well. Thanks again.

Cheers,
Brian

Hey Mark,
No worries.  I appreciate your clarity, patience and just thankful for your help. So, moving forward, what do you suggest I do from here? Being I've download new installers from CS site in attempt to reinstall the 732 and failed there ( now I understand why), I'm at a loss.
Thanks again for all your help and time.

BG

Hi Mark.
I did used a saved CS_b737-200 with all the changes I made and just as you said,and after my first reinstall, copied it into sim objects>airplanes>CS 737-200. Then when I went to free flight page , the 732 was nowhere to be found.
Now I have more serious problems as my FSX won't even open up.When I click on it, I can't even make it to the free flight page. The donut spins for a bit and then the FSX screen disappears- like something is keep it from loading and opening.
So I think these 737 problems are related to an FSX issue. Probably time to do a reinstall or repair.
Thanks again for all your help.

Thanks so much.

Lex, I did not use either one of those in my reinstall. I've got most of everything up and running again. Quite a job. Funny, all my planes, scenery's utilities etc.... reinstalled perfectly, except the CS 737. Same issue as before. The CS 707 and 727 installed perfectly. Couldn't use my saved folders though after the reinstall. So had to do all my changes over again.

Maybe the installers for the 737 are corrupt?
I would suggest that you download them again, making sure that your Anti Virus software is OFF/Disabled. It is possible that your Anti Virus software might be seeing, might have seen, the installers as a threat. This can happen sometimes.