Windows 10: FSX Product Activation Error

Hi i am having an error problem with my Flight simulator that says" An error occurred while attempting to activate the product. The problem may be due to an incomplete installation of the application".


I was trying to repair my flight simulator because it was not acting right. After repairing the flight simulator i would run it and it would just crash, so then i decided to uninstall the program and then reinstall the flight simulator. After doing that the flight simulator would run fine but then still continued to crash if i would trying to load in with my addon aircraft's. while i would run the simulator after this would happen it would give me the error as i have mentioned in the subject title of it being an activation error the simulator does not work, i have tried repairing it since the issue has happened, even reinstalling it which the error tells you to do which does not solve the error. I have also even created another Microsoft account which i hoped would work, but still didn't work, Also tried running in compatibility mode.


Windows 10 / Licensing & activation

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Not active fsx

In my April 24th reply, I had asked you if you were able to take a flight in spite of having the Activation error come up? So could you attempt any flight to make sure that you have installed FSX properly? And try to fly for more than 30 minutes (you can
use time compression if you are short of time).

If your FSX runs properly, I can give you a possible suggestion for the Activation error. But if FSX doesn't run, then you need to go through certain steps before you can do a re-install of it.

 

FSX re-install activation.

I have a brand new Windows 10 installation on a new SSD. When I re-installed FSX from my original FSX disc I was asked for the product code. I entered it and was asked to choose activate online now or later. I chose ' activate now ' . When started
FSX I got error 'activation fail' number 1-80004005.

Now I got the message 'your 30 minute trial has expired'! What can I do? I have my original FSX and Acceleration disks yet am unable to activate the program. I am not happy. Any suggestions please?

 

FSX - Activation and Error Codes

I have original FSX-Gold / Acceleration disks.

All worked well through Win XP - 7 - 8 - 8.1 and first update to Win 10.

On the 23/12/2015 Windows installed a 'critical update'.

After this I lost FSX registration and had a series of errors on reinstall - repair attempts. Error codes were 1311, 1722, 1603 as well as the activation error on start-up - 8-c0000006. Also FSX had reverted to Demo mode with no product ID registered.

After a few days of frustration at failed re-installs – repairs (the install/repair always dropped out on the very last stage [Disk 2] at activation, I used Revo Uninstaller to remove all references to FSX in the registry and did a Restore to 22/12/2015
(the day before the Win 10 'critical' update.

After this I had no activation error on FSX start-up and my product ID was displayed, but I got Scenery files missing errors for area 116 -0 120 on start-up. [Apparently the missing scenery files were from the FSX - Acceleration disk.]

I then installed Acceleration and this went well but I got the usual ‘failed to register’ error at the end of the installation of Acceleration. I checked FSX and my product ID was still there [thankfully] but the activation error 8-c000006 returned.

All throughout this process I used Microsoft KB928080 [as administrator] to reset activation details before reinstall/repairs and after restore to 21/12/2015

Is there any easy fix for this apart from complete Win 8.1-10.0 reinstall? [I have genuine Win 8.i x64]

Thanks, KH