Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - The deadly "MSXML4.SP not installed" message

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | The deadly "MSXML4.SP not installed" message

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Posted onPost created on March 06 2017 16:12 ET by Jim Daigneau

I reinstalled FSX Accel to fix some bugs and got the "The MSXML4 SP2 component is not installed. Please reinstall Flight Simulator to restore or repair this missing component." message. Running as administrator, I tried all the methods of installing, restarting, reinstalling, deleting the components to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?
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Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

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Posted onPost created on March 06 2017 16:23 ET by Luke Kolin

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19662

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on March 07 2017 13:20 ET by Jim Daigneau

Thanks Luke. I've tried that method several times to no avail. I've extracted the files to the System32 folder as noted. I tried to get the files to resister and that procedure failed too. I'm mainly just venting because I'm shut down: both FS9 and FSX installations are down now.

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

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Posted onPost created on March 08 2017 00:48 ET by Clarence McGaha

Jim, I had a surprisingly hard time reinstalling fsx gold edition after a FSX corrupted file error occurred,
I deleted FSX from the control panel and then tried to load FSX it from the
installation disks. Do not do that. What helped me was to do everything from the disk commands on the installation disks.
You want FSX to do the deinstallation and installation.
It was frustrating but it works now. It took a couple to tries and I lost a day or two on that problem.

Clarence McGaha

Captain, Concorde

Posted onPost created on March 08 2017 10:50 ET by Jim Daigneau

Eh...too late Clarence. I just used the control panel uninstall and will try from scratch again. The frustrating thing at this point is the stupid XML parser. I think I'm following the install instructions correctly but FSX still flags the .dll as not being installed.
Hmmm...maybe it's time to move onto P3D...

Jim Daigneau (DVA5643)

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