Windows 8.1 to Windows 8.1 Pro Upgrade screws up Aerofly RC7 licensing

  • Microsoft offers an in-place upgrade to Windows 8.1 Pro.

    I had Windows 8.1 installed on my Gaming Laptop as it came. I installed and licensed RF7 on that laptop.

    Everything ran great.

    I performed the "Pro" upgrade via the Windows Online store/key entry.

    After that Aerofly thinks the sim is installed on a new machine that must be re-licensed.

    Somebody at iPacs dropped the ball on this one.

    How do you fix this?

    I wish we could just go back to the game commander/dongle licensing... much easier.

  • That is a reasonable policy.

    I would love to see the default be three activations, if two are on the same home network.

    e.g. While I only run Aerofly on one computer at a time, I do have three machines I would like to have it installed on, a gaming laptop, a multimedia/TV computer and my "workhorse" machine.

    So being in the U.S. who do I call for the change?

    I want to deactivate the now non-working installation so I can re-activate.

    Thanks.