Hey all,

 

I just purchased FSX Gold last week, and have spent the last 3 days trying to get it activated. I've installed and re-installed it at least a dozen times to no avail. I get the following message when I try to activate it.

 

Product Activation Error: An error occurred while attempting to activate the product. The problem may be due to an incomplete installation of the application. Reinstalling the application may resolve the problem. Otherwise, please contact product support for assistance.

 

 

I've been to the support page and just around the internet and from what I've read it's a very well known and well documented problem. However, no one seems to be posting a fix for it. Even on the Support pages. All of the support requests for the problem are greeted with the same response, to do these 3 things, when the person responds that they have and it still doesn't work, they get the same response back to "try these 3 things" again. If after a couple fo repeats of the same response they're still having problems they are just passing them off to the XBox/Games for Windows support forums, where I've found only 1 thread about the issue from back in August and it was never responded to.

 

The only thing I haven't done yet is actually call the Activation center, but I've read at least 4 posts on other boards from people who have called and were told the game was an older product and they couldn't help them or that the game was no longer supported. Which seems weird as the MS Store is still selling it.

 

Does anyone have any ideas to get this activated? I've done everything the Microsoft support pages have said to do, from the Registry Edit, to the licensing reset tool, to trying a different user profile. NOTHING Works.

 

Please help.

 

BTW: I'm using XP SP3 if that helps in someway.

Do a complete uninstall: http://support.precisionmanuals.com/KB/a87/how-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-fsx.aspx

 

Then clean the registry with f.ex. CCleaner.

 

Then try once more.