Some may recall that I had a rebuild of my system last year.
Since then, I've been bugged by Acceleration opening with a "Sorry...... ERROR CODE 1-80004005......"
This has meant that after half an hour, I'm told appraisal time is up now you have to activate.
Originally it WAS all activated, but the rebuild crunched things somehow.
Trying to fix the problem, I removed all of FSX and Acceleration, and reinstalled.
FSX goes fine, asks me to enter my product key code and it runs trouble free.
Install SP1, successful
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Install SP2 doing it stops reverses everything and tells me system not updated
![banging head off wall :wall:](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif)
So install Acceleration. All goes fine, "successfully installed" LIES LIES, it will not let me activate, won't even ask for the magic numbers in the DVD packet.
Tried MS telephone activation. "You must have your computer turned on, the programme running, and the activation screen showing"
![banging head off wall :wall:](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif)
I'm then told to call back when I'm ready to follow their instructions.
![Doh! :doh:](./images/smilies/eusa_doh.gif)
There's another tiny file in FSX just called "Activate" When I click this, I'm asked do I want to let this affect my computer. YES! But it just disappears
![Cry :'(](./images/smilies/010.gif)
I have uninstalled Acceleration, turned everything off, come back later and reinstalled in the vain hope that some little bit will twitch the right way, but it doesn't.
I've also tried doing a "REGISTRATION FIX" which begins with "This works" and takes me through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE BLAH BLAH, and when I get to the end, I don't have to clear all values except "PartMgr" because that's all there is.
I know heaps of you have moved on from FSX, but if anyone can help with this, I'd be so very grateful.