Pyradius:

The activation software requires the ability to write to the hard drive in a particular way, that cannot be done through a virtual environment.  There are no plans to remove this activation software from MetaStock, so if this is a deciding point for you (and falls within the 30 day return policy) you should probably ask for a refund, yes.

Would MS 10 work in ramdisk as MS 9 does?...... the reason to install MS in a ram disk is to optimize the speed for EST and other exploration as discussed in

http://forum.equis.com/forums/permalink/19767/19173/ShowThread.aspx#19173

Sa