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    A little help please

    My upper menu, showing the down arrow when the cursor is placed at the top of the msfs screen, stopped showing. How do I get it back on?

    Also the instruments that show in external mode don't show. How are they turned back on?

    Appreciative of any help.

    Jim

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    Jim, I have seen threads at the MS site talking about the arrow menu not showing for some people. I don't know if there is a workaround? You might want to check there.

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    I believe those instruments are called the HUD. They can be found in one of the Options menu. I think Accessibility?
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    Thanks, John for your response.

    All worked properly after SU7 so I'll try a reload of MSFS.

    Jim

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    Problem partially solved

    Emptying the community folder brought back both the upper menu and external view instruments.

    Now to isolate the cause by adding back in the addons.

    Jim

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    I think odd things are happening with MSFS at the moment.
    2 days ago everything was ok.
    Yesterday, I started MSFS with no changes between the days, by me, & I found the 'Assistance' settings had changed overnight.
    I have most of them turned off normally.
    The overlay display on the screen of your height, speed etc, [HUD?] was on. I always have it off.
    I changed the settings back to how I could remember I had them, restarted MSFS & in the boot up it asked me to reinstall MSFS Standard Edition!
    I backed out of that & booted again & this time it was all ok, so I don't know what was going on.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Twice43 View Post
    I think odd things are happening with MSFS at the moment.
    2 days ago everything was ok.
    Yesterday, I started MSFS with no changes between the days, by me, & I found the 'Assistance' settings had changed overnight.
    I have most of them turned off normally.
    The overlay display on the screen of your height, speed etc, [HUD?] was on. I always have it off.
    I changed the settings back to how I could remember I had them, restarted MSFS & in the boot up it asked me to reinstall MSFS Standard Edition!
    I backed out of that & booted again & this time it was all ok, so I don't know what was going on.
    T43

    With my extraordinary flight sim precognition, I see a quick fix on the short term horizon.

    I have experience many of the abnormalities (or maybe they are normalities?) you have experience. From reading flight sim forums we are not alone.
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    Something strange is going on. MSFS is not synching right now and I can't even run it

    jim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimjones View Post
    Something strange is going on. MSFS is not synching right now and I can't even run it

    jim.
    I had an issue with mine not synching, I had to manually start the XBox app up for some reason. No issues before SU7 update.

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    The non-synch situation was short lived.
    Restoring all previous community files did not cause the upper toolbar or instrument readouts to fail.

    All is well now.
    Jim

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    Have you tried signing out and resigning into your MS account. That's sort of like the turn it off then back on. Amazing how fixes things so often.
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