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
    2016-08-28T22:59:54+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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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-23T23:52:03+00:00

    I would like to add something just in case there are people who have the same issue as described above where it will not allow to to punch in the Activation code .

    Jeffery M gave me most of the cure however when I went to check the value in Reg Edit , it already said partmgr and that is it, so I was a little bit perplexed !

    but I removed partmgr and retyped it PartMgr, tried to fly FSX and the activation window was there !

    So it seems you must also have the correct upper and lower case .

    I found this out after about 5 different fix attempts, uninstalling FSX completely , doing a Revo uninstall clean sweep, you name it I tried it , when I reinstalled FSX and acceleration , I had the same issue, I had tried the Regedit but saw it already said partmgr, never realizing the first letter of each word must be upper case.

    I had nothing to lose so I just gave it a go and it worked so  . . . . . 

    A HUGE THANK YOU to Jeffery M !

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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
    2016-04-20T22:17:00+00:00

    I am using Windows 10, 64 bit and I had this issue with an installation.

    I went around and around with these instructions, trying to find where I was going wrong. When I opened my registry at the above, all that was there was "partmgr". I left it alone for the longest time, but then I noticed that the post says "PartMgr" - the capitalization matters in this case, because when I changed mine for the all lowercase to the one shown, it worked just fine.

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