We Have Success !!!! Rick was right. When it goes in to freeze mode, wait it out. Took about 20 minutes for the dialog box to come up. Also when you go to Launch realflight, it took another 20 mins or so for the dialog box that asks for the serial numbers to come up. A couple of other things... I took the antu-virus off the system. Also, with Windows 8, do not install from the Start screen. Launch it from the desktop.screen....AND.... WAITITOUT!!!! I called Great Planes Product Support and passed this along to them. They are nice people. They seemed to appreciate the input.

Again, thank you Rick, Ernie and Josie.

V/R


Bill