Hi Diehard. I had a hell of a time to deactivate modules for awhile but it seems to work ok now running the protect exe in the aircraft bin files. I also changed video cards last year without deactivating my modules and did not lose activations [video cards are not listed in the hardware points system they have], as well I see they have implemented a activate/deactivate system in the module manager in the latest builds. Hope this helps a bit.