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
    2017-02-24T21:01:35+00:00

    Window 10 gave me an error for regedit (Windowskey +R), so I just ran regedit and successfully browsed for the registry key.  I found "partmgr" was entered (not 0).  I made the case change to "PartMgr" and it worked!  Thank you Jeffrey.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-12T13:25:49+00:00

    Hi Jeffrey,

    I have the same issue as Jerry I did follow-up exactly what you recommended but when I double-click Upperfilters is showing partmgr, so I still have the same issue. Any idea what I should do next?. Many thanks

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-11-25T06:53:30+00:00

    Didn't work for me just keeps comming up with product activation error?

    and yess i double checked everything

    please help.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-11-09T20:36:05+00:00

    This worked perfectly for me too. Windows10 Home 64bit. Mine was partmgr and I changed it to PartMgr and the activation screen popped up next load of FSX. Awesome thanks!

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