Windows 10: how to delete the installation of msfs2020 and reinstalling het again

how to delete the installation of msfs2020 and reinstalling het again

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Unable to uninstall or reinstall msfs2020

I recently upgraded my system hardware from the motherboard out, retaining ssd's and hdd's. I had MSFS 2020 installed on an SSD separate from the SSD on which the OS (Win10 Pro) was installed. I used cloning software to clone the OS drive onto a new nvme
drive, successfully. I purchased a new Win10 Pro license, and successfully activated it as required for the new motherboard.

All my other apps and programs operate as intended, including Office 365, various Adobe apps and other flight sim software (Prepar3D, etc.) When I started MSFS however, it initially showed that an update was required. The update failed. Subsequent retries
and various other solutions posted here and elsewhere concerning how to fix the MS Store and/or MSFS2020 have failed.

Attempting direct file removal has also failed since the folder that is created for MSFS is inaccessible even for the system administrator. I've taken ownership of that folder and still cannot rename or remove the files.

All I want is a clean removal and reinstall action of MSFS2020. I've paid for the high end version of that flight sim, I expect to be able to use it.

Suggestions?

 

MSFS2020 Ransomeware Alert

I use Windows 10, paid for and started downloaded MSFS2020 over a few days because of data limitations in my area. It got to just 4Gb to go and then my Bitdefender antivirus program displayed two "encrypted files ransomware alerts" in the download cache
folders and stopped the download.

I enabled my Bitdefender to clean the two folders.

I tried to restart MSFS202 download and it keeps on switching off after about 5 seconds after trying to start the MSFS2020 window.

I checked for outstanding Windows 10 updates, installed them and still no change - MSFS2020 does not finish installing.

 

MSFS2020 packages directory

Hi all,

For better performance on MSFS2020, I have installed windows 10 (fresh instalation) and MSFS2020 on an SSD Me (M.2) drive and I would not install anything other than these two programs on this drive. (my computer has only 01(one) M.2 slot). However this
drive has only 256 GB and I did not expect the MSFS2020 would consume more than 10GB with each new update !! Now (after installing the Japan update) this drive only has 40 GB free. I have another SSD drive (but it is not SSD Me). So I would like to change
only the Packages folder (which includes both the Community and Official folders) for this new SSD, because I am afraid of losing performance, if I change the entire directory of the MSFS2020 to the new drive which is slower.

So my question:

Can I change only the Packages folder for this new drive that is slower? If so, how do I do this?