August 7, 201312 yr Commercial Member Nothing happens when you uninstall FSX so you may as well leave it on your old PC. Steve Waite: Engineer at codelegend.com
August 7, 201312 yr i JUST (1 hour ago) reinstalled FSX and Accel pack. worked fine. no hiccups at all Packard Bell i11....64gb ram....1tb SSD....Nvidia 99000 4tb......400watt corsair......Windows ME 64.
August 7, 201312 yr Nothing happens when you uninstall FSX so you may as well leave it on your old PC. Can someone prove this? i7-6700K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR4-2400 MHz, GTX 1070 8GB
August 7, 201312 yr i JUST (1 hour ago) reinstalled FSX and Accel pack. worked fine. no hiccups at all I could be wrong but I don't think that merely reinstalling FSX would require activation. You'd either have to wipe your HD/reinstall Windows from scratch first, or install FSX on a new PC. Dave Kalin Excel Classes Computer Lessons
August 7, 201312 yr Commercial Member Yeah, I checked and the count is not incremented when you uninstall FSX. Steve Waite: Engineer at codelegend.com
August 7, 201312 yr Can someone prove this? The MS servers/FSX do not communicate with each other after activation. If you waited long enough between activations, you could have FSX installed on 1000 computers at the same time and the activation server would never know.
August 7, 201312 yr Moderator Yes, a red herring... From the reporting website's Facebook (!) page, posted by a 'member': "... Problem Resolved the [Microsoft] Australian Office number claimed that the product was unsupported now, so I managed to get the telephone key number and rang the Microsoft activations in the UK and managed to get it activated..." ... or just Microsoft, being Microsoft.
August 7, 201312 yr Ugh, most know that phone support ended some time back. The automated system still works just fine.
August 7, 201312 yr Moderator How do you actually move over to a new PC with a new install? Is it a ordinary uninstall and then activatino of the new install on the new rig? Over the years, as I've replaced my flightsim machine with a new one, I've simply installed FSX on the new one and left FSX on the older one as it gets physically relocated in my studio to another location. The old machine is on my LAN so it is accessible at any time should I need to recover some file(s), or need to test some multi-player operations. I now have six such machines here in the studio, all with FSX installed... I do have three copies of FSX Gold, but all of the machines used the same activation code from my first set of ISO files I received gratis as one of the beta testers. EDIT: In the FSX root folder is a list of toll-free telephone numbers where you can call and have the reactivation counter reset in a matter of minutes. In fact, some of those numbers connect with an automated system so you don't even have to talk to a human. It works quite well, and will not be shut down until several years after MS quits selling FSX either through brick-and-mortar stores, and via their on-line store. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
August 7, 201312 yr The phone activation doesn't activate FSX ONLY. It also activates Office, GFWL, etc. It's the same number for all those products. i7-6700K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR4-2400 MHz, GTX 1070 8GB
August 7, 201312 yr Wouldn't be surprised if LM have done a deal with MS so everyone can convert to P3D Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
August 7, 201312 yr So what is your point? They won't shut the service down for a long time. i7-6700K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR4-2400 MHz, GTX 1070 8GB
August 7, 201312 yr Wouldn't be surprised if LM have done a deal with MS so everyone can convert to P3D Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD No, they haven't. They won't shut the service down for a long time. OK! Wonder where all the chicken littles are now?
August 7, 201312 yr OK! Wonder where all the chicken littles are now? i7-6700K @ 4.5 GHz, 16 GB DDR4-2400 MHz, GTX 1070 8GB
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