I wiped my hard drive and lost all the Icons for DCS. As the main program is installed on a separate HDD, I just made a shortcut of the run.exe icon and away I went. It works and DCS ( Open Alpha, Open Beta, and Stable ) opened up and ran.... but had a hitch. None of these programs would check for updates when ran. For months now I have been forcing updates, repairs and all that jazz.
Today, I found that instead of using run.exe as the shortcut, go into the "bin" folder and make a shortcut of the DCS_updater.exe to start. All 3 programs now check for updates before running as well as starting up the program.