First, it's obviously not "dangerous" that a program checks your registry keys. How could work otherwise ? The program check all your registry keys at each start, which is what *EVERY* program in the world that accepts any kind Serial Number normally does. And, checking the registry is not dangerous at all.
You should try monitoring any Windows program with Process Monitor, a free utility from Microsoft: there are literally *hundreds* of registry keys access every few seconds, coming from all the places, especially when you start a program...
Maybe, you meant checking the keys *online* ? Which is NOT what the program does normally. This is a common misconception. The activation is checked onllne only once, but then is stored in the registry. Clear and easy proof of this: the scenery works even without a network connection, once is activated.
So no, there's no "big brother" watching you...
The only time there's an online check is when:
- You reinstall the PC from scratch, so you need to reactivate the sceneries.
- You change an hardware component
- You lost your activation keys, for reasons that don't have anything to do with the scenery.
Since you haven't said you reinstalled your PC, and you haven't mentioned an hardware change, that leaves the 3rd option, which is the loss of the activation from the registry without having changed hardware.
This is might be caused by registry cleaner, defraggers, etc. THOSE are really dangeours program, because they try to figure out "useless" (according to them) registry keys, and remove them.
If you haven't used any of these, the only (very rare) possible cause, it's what esellerate consider a minor hardware change.
Which is an hardware change that doesn't *consume* one of your available activations, but it requires an online check nonetheless. This might happen also when updating some drivers, like network drivers, ide drivers, the mainboard bios, etc.
Other than that, there are no other reasons I can think of why the activation question was repeated.
I reactivate FS2004 with the FS9reg utility and FS2004 and all sceneries seems now to work again .
What is this, exactly ?
