Error Code 1-80004005

Anonymous
2010-02-06T05:10:01+00:00

Error Code 1-80004005 after reinstalling FSX on Vista. Activation form doesn't load therefore, there's no way to activate it. Observed several discussions on this using Google searches but never found a specific answer. Have tried the FSX installation DVD Repair option but no help there.

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Anonymous
2010-02-07T01:39:52+00:00

Well, I seemed to have fixed this myself. After reading through http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960481, I saw the mention of uninstalling FSX SP2 but for a different problem. I went to the control panel and under programs and features I found that it didn't show the FSX program nor SP1 but did show FSX SP2. So I uninstalled SP2. After that and just for the heck of it I thought I would try to fire up FSX and viola! the first thing that appeared was the activation form that I was unable to get earlier. I filled in the key code from my box, was accepted and now I appear to be running OK. I still haven't reinstalled SP2 yet as I am still flying around and resetting my settings that I had originally.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-09-16T14:43:21+00:00

    It worked for me, thanks for your explanation!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-28T22:59:54+00:00

    Fantastic observation by S Peterson.

    I was pulling my hairs over this for many days until I read his post. 

    I updated to Windows 10 Anniversary version and have this problem. Don't think I had this in the earlier Win 10.

    Remember it is capital P and capital M as in PartMgr

    Thanks Peterson. I still have some hair left.

    Cheers

    Michael Tan

    Melbourne

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-19T15:40:34+00:00

    Thanks, changing the regkey from partmgr to PartMgr was the fix I needed to Activate FSX:Acceleration on Win10 Pro.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-04T18:45:19+00:00

    Hi,

    It worked in a single go. Thanks a lot Bro ! ! Enjoy flying ! !

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