Having bought and installed the extra voice pack I found two initial problems when I ran PFE. The first problem was that my system was suddenly running extremely slowly which left me wondering if all the extra voices are loaded into memory on start up rather than being called as and when needed. The second problem was that the program informed me that there was no pilot voice selected and that I needed to do this. However, when I tried to select one there were no pilot voices showing in the relevant drop down list.
I therefore decided to uninstall the extra voice pack through Control Panel. This was successful and my system was back to running properly, as previously. However, I still could not select a pilot voice. Another thing, I could still select or deselect the "Use the XPack II Enhancer" tick box under Options#1 even though I had just successfully uninstalled them!!!!
So in the end I decided to uninstall the rest of PFE and reinstall it again, but I couldn't do this because Control Panel\Programs and Features no longer had an entry for the program. Removing the extra voice pack had also removed the entry to uninstall the basic package.
I was therefore left with having to manually delete all the files from my hard disk. Fortunately, I had had the presence of mind to create a system restore point before I originally installed PFE a couple of days ago. Restoring the system has been a life saver.
I am somewhat reluctant to install PFE again - in fact, bordering on the almost resolutely refusing to consider the matter. I have been using PCs since the mid 1980s and am highly computer literate. I am running FS2004 on a dedicated 32 bit Windows 7 platform which is not connected to the Internet and therefore does not have any anti-virus or anti-spyware software which might cause problems. The sim plus the few addons I have are all working OK. PFE was originally working OK until I installed the extra voice pack. Installing and uninstalling the extra voice pack is a no brainer as it just needs a couple of mouse clicks - and all done!
I know that these problems have nothing to do with product activation but I'm beginning to think that maybe activated software doesn't like me!! Or am I just unfortunate??!!
Dijvid