You are looking in windowsapps but this should be WpSystem folder here is the sim stored with official one storefolder inside
OK. Thanks. This is what I know.
There are two different <flightsimulator.exe> files.
The first one is here and returns the following error
The second one is in XboxGames. It returns a different error.
You can see this error refers to the ANOTHER FlightSimulator.exe in “.…\ProgramFiles\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1/36/2/0_x64_…\FlightSimulator.exe”
The same thing happens when I click on the Main Icon in the Start menu… which means it tries to open the FlightSimulator.exe in Xbox Games folder.
Rather than doing a full restore of my C: drive from the recent back up, I could do a clean install of MSFS2020… which may not be a bad idea given all the updates.
Only thing is I have not found how to do that. Does it require first removing MSFS2020. and then doing a download from MS Store?
Any ideas?
UPDATE!!! Problem solved!!!
I did not realise that I needed the Xbox App for Windows to manage MSFS2020.
Never needed to before… (Not sure why they have to make it that confusing)
Somehow my Xbox App got deleted.
So I Installed the Xbox App.
Once installed, I opened the Xbox App from the Windows Start Menu.
Selected “Manage”.
This opened another menu.
Select “Files” and then select “Verify and Repair”
Warning that some existing settings would be reset.
OK.
Restarted MSFS2020 in my PC
Started up fine / normal.
Does not seem that any settings have changed.
I will recheck my settings later and check the Installation Manager - Market place to ensure everything else is as it should be.
Happy days!!!