This is a warning to anyone still running PFPX. Yesterday I cloned my SSD for a larger one on which PFPX is installed.
The laptop booted up fine and all seemed well. Until I launched PFPX. I was presented with a registration screen to enter my product key. ☹️
WHAT??? I'd only swapped out the SSD for a larger one. No change to any other hardware. This seems total overkill.
So I searched all my mail from FlightSimSoft and it included one with all the registrations. TopCat and annual subscriptions for their services,
But crucially not the one for PFPX. This I guess is because I bought it from PC Aviator, not direct from FSS.
Fortunately their website is still running and on finding my order I was able to retrieve my product key.
But had PC Aviator not still been running I would have been stuffed!
So if you change your SSD make sure you have your product key available.
By
Ray Proudfoot ·
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