There are several buttons in the real aircraft that need to be helm down to activate, I assume as a safety measure, and these are replicated in the simulation.
Personally I wouldn’t touch this software, it’s a hack and known to cause issues in XP.
I don’t know those other tools. The developer of other fine CL650 hardware had a similar issue with their DCP/CCP, and was able to work around it with this script https://www.avioniquesimulation.com/wp-content/uploads/products/DCP_CCP/DCP-CCP_panel_lua_script.zip, you can look at it for inspiration.