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
    2014-10-04T18:45:19+00:00

    Hi,

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

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-24T13:53:23+00:00

    Hey!

    I have the same problem..

    I am in love with FSX, I bought FSX Gold Edition in may 2013 and installed it on my pc (windows 7) and it worked fine. But a few days ago I bought a new HP with windows 8. I first installed FSX and after that I installed AEP. But then it says : ERROR CODE: 1 - 80004005.

    You've talked about this and I did the regedit thing and PartMgr was already there but I thought that I had to delete the line above that but I didn't, so..

    1. What to do?!
    2. What's the line above PartMgr?

    Can you guys please help me?

    Oh and for your info, I'm fourteen so less of the fancy words please..      Oh and it would be awesome if there was a picture near every step I must take..

    I hope you guys will help me.

    sincerely

    Tom

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  3. 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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  4. 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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