Good News, Ariane did get back to me. They apparently had a server problem which caused the delay. So if you have the same problem, go to the Ariane folder in fsx and run the exe addtosimstart. That gave me my sub menu and thus Activation. So I'm up and running.Chris, that is what happens when you use the search engine and don't want to start a new thread on the same subject. The point being that Ariane are still alive and well except for a server problem.