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So far so good! Windows 7 installed and so is OFF plus all patches. Working just like before and working well. The relief I'm feeling is so VAST.

Okay gloves are coming off. Going to get Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade tomorrow. That should fix this damned problem! GOODBYE VISTA :)

No luck. I tried deleting Avast, Super Anti Spyware, and Malware programs. I even found other hidden keys in the registry and got rid of all those. After getting rid of all the AV programs, I un-installed and re-installed OFF and followed the patching order to the letter. Ran the OFFManager and CFS3 exes as Administator as well. It's got no affect on this at all, as the OFFMan Fatal Menu Error keeps occuring. I'm exchanging e-mails with a tech guy from ODB Support and the advice he's given me so far hasn't worked. I'm starting to wonder if my registry is somehow porked? Hell I may end up taking my computer to the geek squad and have them format C drive and re-install Windows Vista! I would do that myself, but the OS came pre-installed and I don't own a copy of Vista Basic Home Edition.

I have Windows Vista and am getting this debilitating "OFFMan: Fatal Error Loading Menu! OFF will now exit..." as well, but I don't have the AV Bit Defender. I keep uninstalling and reinstalling and running CFS3.exe and OFFManager.exe as administrator, but the error message keeps occuring.

Alright that worked! Thanks to all involved

Did exactly that proceedure and the Hanriot HD-1 doesn't appear. Sorry to be a pain-in-the-a**. Do you have to reduce the number of planes to a certain amount in the aircraft folder? Do you have to alias the sound file correctly? Again thank you for taking the time to reply mate

HELP!!! New guy here. The add on plane I'm referring to is from the downloads section: http://combatace.com/files/file/8730-81st-squadrigallia-itlay-hanriot/ I installed it, but it doesn't show up in the aircraft selection menus in the game. I've got OFF installed over CFS3 and all patched up (1.32G). So what am I doing wrong? I have experience with CFS2 in the past where you have to alias some files (panel and/or sound file), but that's not working here. Thank you guys <S>

Okay new pilot to OFF here. How do you install and run the Hanriot HD-1? How do you make any of the non-stock aeroplanes appear on the menus inside OFF? Thanks <S>

Got burned out with IL2 1946 and needed another subject to get interested in. Got into Aces High II for a few weeks and got an old friend into Aces High II as well. He preferred WW1 sims and Aces High II has 4 basic WW1 planes to mess with. That got me into WW1 again. Rise Of Flight was too much for my computer so I am going to give Over Flanders Fields a try. Just waiting for the CD from http://www.overflandersfields.com/ to arrive.

Great work! Another excellent contribution

Dear Bullethead: I agree with some of what you say, but are you suggesting that because of all the dangers and costs of space exploration and social problems that need fixing, etc, that we should just remain in place here on Earth and do nothing? That we should remove all the money from NASA and use it to restore the cities? Will this magically cause tears and anguish, famine, wars, starvation, pollution, attrocities, genocide and all things evil to simply evaporate across the world? You really think that this is possible? Get rid of the Human race and it just might be. But this isn't possible, so why in blazes should we be barred from exploration and discovery? Our social problems will always be a mess with or without a space program. Just think if the first European settlers who arrived in the new world had thought, "Why leave the coast and explore futher west when our social problems are such a mess?" We'd still be stuck in Plymouth Rock and Jamestown! Homo sapiens are a curious species that learn about the world through observation and spend loads of time making tools and figuring things out. Exploration, discovery and expanding our own horizons and consciousness runs in our blood! From our origins in the East African Rift Valley to present day, the very rise of our species, our technology, our intelligence, and civilization itself is a direct result of this. Well this is a typical of someone obviously not very interested in space exploration. If you were, then I wouldn't be posting this reply. I am VERY INTERESTED in this stuff, Sir! There are vast numbers of others who surely feel the same way. I really hope that people like you don't end up in power. I'll never quite understand people who can't seem to think past the roof over their heads and come up with a hundred excuses as to why space exploration is a bad idea. This is why you'll never find a job with NASA. I'll give you several good reasons why: 1) We won't be able to live here on Earth forever. The planet will be devastated by a natural catastrophe at some point in the future. This has occured at least 5 times in geologic history. Mass extinction events happened at the end of the Ordovician, Devonian, and Permian periods. The next two occured at the end of the Triassic and Cretaceous periods. The Permian event ended over 90% of life on Earth. The Terminal Cretaceous extinction erased 60-70% of life on Earth. We may not be successful in saving ourselves from the same fate despite technology that we have, or that has yet to be created. Nature has a way of reminding us that we are not masters of this world. The planet Venus is a good example of a planet-wide environmental disaster. 2) The Earth's internal heat engine won't drive plate tectonics forever, either. The great volume of radiactive decay occuring at the core will eventually fade away and our Earth could end up a lifeless, dead world in the distant future. This would make it rather difficult to support life from that point forward. The planet Mars is a good demonstration of this. 3) Our Sun is about half way through it's life cycle of about 10 billion years. This is expected with a typical G class yellow dwarf star. In around 5 billion years the Sun will eventually become our own worst enemy. After the last hydrogen fuel is converted into helium in the Suns core, the initial collapse that created our Sun will resume. The dense helium core will be compressed by this event. Helium will be converted into carbon and oxygen. This will drive the Sun into a red giant stage and the entire inner solar system will be engulfed by the Suns fires. I don't know about you, but I think that these are very good reasons to explore space and ultimately find another habitable world that we could call home. Everything that WE DO NOW with space exploration science, it's engineering and technology will benefit our decendants in the future. This will ensure that they will be able to live elsewhere in space when the time comes. This is exactly WHY we should explore space and continue to explore space, "total BS" or not. That's very touching, not to mention a little conceited. As I told you I am very excited about space exploration and the expansion of the human frontier into this realm. I want to see another lunar mission undertaken and a permanent human presence established on the Moon. I want to see a manned mission to Mars actually happen and I don't care which country achieves it first. I want to see these things occur in my lifetime thank you very much. It seems like you are trying to be king of the hill on this thread my man, and it's getting tiresome after after the course of some 10 posts (half of them extremely long). I think that you have had more than enough time on stage. Please give other people here some room and allow them to express their view points. Peace

Yep and I am always the FIRST person to violate my own advice, too. Despite telling you about that tip, I end up turning the comments BACK on again. Then I read them and get pissed off all over again So much for my advice and credibility

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LOL! Got dat right.

That was the perfect response to Sibrel's verbal attack. Would have been even better to have had Ralph Rene and Bill Kaysing lined up right behind him to get their sorry faces popped as well.

This looks outstanding!

Steve McQueen was my favorite actor when I was growing up. I would definitely say BULLIT!

Yep me too!

Got that right! Polak's mod is a favorite of mine, too. The very same horizon cloud band you show in the pics is the one I used more than all the other ones in Polak's pack. Another mod that I began taking an interest in was the WideSky V1.0 by cellinsky.

Oh man that is TOO funny!

One that's flown by a live player

Happy Birthday and God Bless!