Reinstall the game without losing activation
If you want to reinstall the game without losing an activation, you only have to click on "cancel" when you are asked to de-activate your key. That way your key will remains in your registry. After the installation, do not re-activate the game.

Reset the settings of Pro Cycling Manager 2011:
(Beware, it will erase your progress if you don't make a copy of the PCM folder in my documents)
A. My documents
1. Click Windows Start button and click My Documents or Documents.
2. Delete Pro Cycling Manager 2011 folder.
3. Run Pro Cycling Manager 2011.
B. Roaming folder
1. Open Computer then Local Disk (C:).
2. Open Users folder.
3. Open your username folder.
4. Open AppData folder (*)
5. Open Roaming folder.
6. Delete Pro Cycling Manager 2011 folder.
7. Run Pro Cycling Manager 2011.
(*) Note that on some Windows systems the application data folder is hidden by default.
Here is how to make it visible:
Open the Folder Options by clicking the Start button and click Control Panel.
On the Control Panel, click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options.
On the Folder Options, click on the View tab.
Under the Advanced settings, click Show hidden files and folders and click Ok.

Black or white screen at the start, or crash
For many reasons, Pro cycling Manager may not start properly. Here are some tricks to try to solve the problem :
-launch the game in admin mode;
-shut down the antivirus : some antivirus simply cut the applications with no warning;
-launch the game from Program files instead of autorun.
-skip the start videos : A codec problem may prevent the game from starting. You can rename the 'videos' folder in your installation folder.
-Change the 'my documents' folder : rename your 'Pro Cycling Manager 2011' folder in 'my documents', but don't delete it ! if the game starts, a new Pro Cycling Manager 2011 folder will be built. You can then try to add the files from the former folder and identify which file is corrupted. Most of the time, the murderer is 'local.cdb'.

Crash while loading a savegame
If you cannot load a savegame, that means that the file is corrupted or damaged for some unknow reason, but it is possible to restore the savegame.
1. Click Windows Start button then My Documents or Documents.
2. Open Pro Cycling Manager 2011 folder.
3. Open Users folder then the player profile folder.
4. Open Database folder, then Solo and OfficialRelease (or the name of the DB).
There are three files per savegame, for example:
Stage Race_1.cdb / Stage Race_1.cdb~ / Stage Race_1.cdi
The file Stage Race_1.cdb~ is the game backup.
Please delete Stage Race_1.cdb file.
Rename Stage Race_1.cdb~ file by Stage Race_1.cdb by removing the '~'.
Run the game and load the savegame.

If there are many savegames, you can try to find which cdb file is erroneous by moving all out of the folder. Then copy them back one by one and try to to load it in the game.