I cannot seem to get an answer anywhere else so I thought I would try here. I downloaded the beta and installed last Thursday (31 Aug 06). It ran fine and activated with my key just fine. I played throughout the weekend and flew a little multiplayer and free flights without a time limit. So yesterday I go to play and I get an error message stating " An error occurred while attempting to activate the product. The problem may be due to an incomplete installation of the application. Re-installing the application may resolve the problem. Otherwise, please contact product support for assistance." So I click ok and the game boots up like normal, except the Multiplayer icon is gone. So I decided to fly some missions and they worked fine until I get the " Thanks for trying Flight Sim X. Please activate your product to experience it all". But I already did activate it and all of the sudden it stopped working. If anyone else has experienced this or hasn't I would like to know. I have contacted Fileplanet and Microsoft. Microsoft said they couldn't help until the full release. Fileplanet has yet to respond, but I am not getting my hopes up that they can even help. I was really looking forward to playing this as I am going to be in Iraq when the full release comes out and I haven't got a decent enough laptop to run it anyways..lol. So please if anyone has any input or solutions I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.Ryan LandisUSAF SSGTAir Force Special Operations CommandMC-130P "Combat Shadow" Crew Chief

Hi,If you can't get the Activation window to show up when you start the sim, then an uninstall followed by a reinstall may indeed be the only choice...Hope this helps,--Tom GibsonCal Classic Propliner Page: http://www.calclassic.comFreeflight Design Shop: http://www.freeflightdesign.comDrop by! ___x_x_(")_x_x___

Thanks for the reply Tom. I have indeed un-installed and re-installed twice so far. The first with the first fileplant download and I re-downloaded again a few hours ago the 8 gig file and tried an un-install and re-install. Still no activation screen. This really sucks. It is weird that it goes back to demo mode. I haven't made any changes to my computer in any way since I installed last friday. Last friday I received the screen and input the key just fine. I may attempt a system restore to just before I installed the sim to see if that works. Thanks anyways.Ryan LandisUSAF SSGTAir Force Special Operations CommandMC-130P "Combat Shadow" Crew Chief

Hopefully that will work. Otherwise you would have to search the registry for a sure-to-be cryptic key...Take care,--Tom GibsonCal Classic Propliner Page: http://www.calclassic.comFreeflight Design Shop: http://www.freeflightdesign.comDrop by! ___x_x_(")_x_x___

Yeah, the restore did not work. I thought about the registry, but I have no idea where to even begin looking. Thanks.Ryan LandisUSAF Air Force Special Operations CommandMC-130P "Combat Shadow" Crew Chief