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Antonio Palmieri
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Antonio Palmieri
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Hi.

 

a. Does the X-Plane installation change anything in the windows registry?

 

b. If it doesn't , is X-plane on windows installed like on a Mac, kind of just drop in the folder... no dll, etc?

 

c. The real question: If I install a fresh copy of X-Plane on drive "X", but next week I get a new harddisk and I move the whole of the X-Plane folder to the new drive "Y", do I get into trouble?

 

Normally yes, I know, I am talking about MS. But I'm asking because I got the feeling that X-Plane on Win got installed... "Mac style"

 

Antonio

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Keith Smith
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Hi.

 

a. Does the X-Plane installation change anything in the windows registry?

 

b. If it doesn't , is X-plane on windows installed like on a Mac, kind of just drop in the folder... no dll, etc?

 

c. The real question: If I install a fresh copy of X-Plane on drive "X", but next week I get a new harddisk and I move the whole of the X-Plane folder to the new drive "Y", do I get into trouble?

 

Normally yes, I know, I am talking about MS. But I'm asking because I got the feeling that X-Plane on Win got installed... "Mac style"

 

Antonio

 

a. nope, nada.

 

b. it's all self-contained within the xplane root

 

c. No, you don't get in trouble. All paths are relative to the xplane root. Case in point, feel free to rename the xplane folder to something else.

 

What you suspect might be true is actually true

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Antonio Palmieri
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Great answer Keith, thank you.

 

The secret weapon mentality must have played a part

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