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It has to collect information about your PC. Maybe that's the cause?

Anyway I can assure you it's safe.

I have had to make the call to reactivate my XP install, this even when I first used the CD freshly un-wrapped from the package it came in from the pc builder.

Then after a pc cleaning in which I removed my video cards to clean out dust and reinstalled them, this was considered a major hardware change, didn't change a thing just removed and replaced the same hardware but that was enough to warrant a call to MS. No issues really just a 5 minute call and I was up and running again.

I have no problem calling to reactivate something I bought, I also have no problem with being limited to how many pcs i can use the software on at one time.

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This may be true but you bought a license  to use the software on one computer at a time, the EULA states specifically in section 6 you can make a back up to be used for reinstalling the software and in section 8 you can transfer the software to any other device if you uninstall from the other, there is no limitation as to how many pcs you can install it on, but you can use it only on one pc at a time. this is really no different than most other software.

A major hardware change is no exception, that major hardware change could be your buddies pc for all they know, it is impossible for them to say whether that change took place on your machine or someone else's.

Actually makes sense to only be able to run it from one computer at a time, this is what prevents piracy, yes the second pc may be yours but then again it may be your neighbors or the buddy down the street and this is why the one pc at a time

Common sense and real simple to understand. Read the EULA, MS makes theirs pretty simple to understand, and I see them doing nothing wrong with preventing you buying the license and then installing it on all the pcs you want be them yours or you friends, simple as that.

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There you have it, right there when your installing it, don't like it take it back and get your money back BTW if your retailer won't give your money back there is a  contact for MS and they will

I think people seem to take EULAS as a joke and few ever read them, when that is all they need to do to understand exactly what they can or can not do with their software.

Actually I think that is true Hagar, I will need to check but you don't have to activate the software at all if i recall during install, but instead are limited to amount of flight time per session.

I have it activated on my gaming rig, I will try a install on one of my other PCs and see what it says. (should be able to find something relating to this in the program documents.)

RE: Taking it back to the store, most stores won't allow a return on open software just becasue of the fact of copying it. Few years ago you could purchase, take home burn a copy then return for your money back. Now it is usually a return for another copy. Like I stated in my post in the read me there is contact information for MS for a refund.

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But to be honest buying used software is a risk in itself, most EULAs state the software license (mind you that is what you bought not the software itself ) you can not resell or rent the software.

A store that takes the software back will more than likely get their money back from the manufacturer. If they attempt to resell it used then they apparently don't realize chances are they are doing so illegally.

Frankly, if you've bought the product ligitimately, I think activation is the least of your problems...

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You know I feel sorry for you that your experience thus far with FSX has been so bad, you make that apparent in every post you make so get over it.

You seem to be the only one so upset over the future of technology and software design, and also one of the few that take minimum requirements and marketing photos for software with more than a grain of salt, whereas if you really had frequent experience with software you would have known from the beginning that the marketing always glamorizes the final product and even before the FSX Demo was released  most here already knew in advance that it would take a computer and some cash to get it to run to their expectations. Or at least those of us that have been around the MS Sim series for awhile.

Sorry for my rant, but I'm sure I speak for most of us here when I say we are tiring of your complaints here, if they are that important to you go complain to MS instead of bashing what I find to be a superior addition to their flight sim series. minor bugs and all

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Did I not read you say in another post that you don't do personal attacks. Now you are calling some one a d head. I had alot of respect for your post until I read this one. I totally respect your opinions but that is a little toooo much. I am going through the same growing pains with flight simulator that I did with FS2000 2002 and 2004. I have a pretty decent setup and hate the stutters but it is always the same thing and I did not expect it to be any diffrent this time. You have joined in almost every post lately to bash it in some way or another. WE KNOW YOUR OPINION but after a while it is starting to gnaw at me. RELAX and stay with 2004 until your next major upgrade. All the bitchin in the world is not gonna change a product that is all ready on the shelves.

As for the activation. I actually callled the number because my internet was down the evening I bought FSX. Took me less that 5 minutes and the voice recognition software(you do not speak to a live person) never misunderstood anything I said. It was completly painless and free. The only thing that pisses me off is I all ready see cracks out there so people can install and bypass the activation. Microsoft is smart but it seems the damn pirates stay one step ahead.

Can everyone play nice before the mods coming running in with a stick and beat you all?  come on... Opinions welcome, Attacks are not, this should have ended with rollerballs last post, yet it didn't. I bet the mods will love this thread..... I thought Simviation was a happy place, well it used to be unless I missed something on my absence!

Gunny