Hi
Thanks for your reply
I have reinstalled simple cam. Ticked the automatic start box and deleted key assignments. Numeric keypad entries are still showing up in my standard.xml file and my exe.xml has no entry for simple cam. Maybe simple cam is not finding my \AppData\Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3 exe.xml or standard.xml when it installs. However In the Controls folder I do have a removedkeys.txt and a standard.xml.simplecambackup so it is finding this folder ok. I thought it might be a simconnect issue but if I can get simplecam working that seems to rule that out.
All this is strange as I said I can get it working albeit with a bit of fooling around.
Thanks again
Doug