hi everyone

when i want to install flight simulator 2004 ,there is always an error
message telling me:" impossible to extract D:\MSGAME1.CAB restart your
computer and try again" and i 've tried 10 times without any success.can
anyone help me because i am giving up ,and i am very sad to not be
capable to try this wonderful game.thanks a lot

Mostafa, I don't have FS 2004, but I googled the error message and
found this interesting exchange on a forum:

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/ng/microsoft.public.windowsxp.games/post708901.asp

"FatKat" > wrote in message
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> Mostafa, I don't have FS 2004, but I googled the error message and
> found this interesting exchange on a forum:
>
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/ng/microsoft.public.windowsxp.games/post708901.asp

Interestingly, that message (actually posted to a newsgroup, and probably
better referenced through Google Groups, rather than a web archive of the
newsgroup) doesn't mention the most likely reason for the error.

To the original poster: are you logged in as an administrator when you try
to install MSFS? If not, that may explain the error you're getting. Note
that you may also need to be logged in as an administrator to actually run
the program too (unless you change the security settings for the MSFS
install directory so that restricted users can write to that directory).

Pete

This is probably down to a faulty CD or a scratched one.

Clean the CD and you may see a small yet noticable scratch or defect
on the CD.

If the CD is just heavily worn then you may get errors with different
files, or it will hang as well at times.

This cab file maybe quite large therefore you may find the error gets
hits on Google as it may cover quite a large surface area on the
disk. Therefore it's not suprising that other people get the exact
same problem as you.

If this file is on a harddisk (which I doubt) then I dunno. :?