I found it. I did a couple of searches on the internet and found that HP Health Check has that set as their short cut key. Then I just had to do a search for the program and change the properties to none. Thank GOD! It was so sucky having to play with no money cheat.

Thanks for your help!

WS

Well, I have looked and looked. Funny thing is, nothing opens when I press the keys outside the game. Shouldn't it load something if the keys are pressed? I have a program on my desktop that had that problem. It loaded Trillian. I don't have that installed on my laptop yet, or I would be looking at it for that. I guess I will just have to keep opening every program on my laptop and see if it has those keys listed. Joy!

WS

Sorry, I thought he was giving me a command. I didn't think about the ffs directory at the time. I am very new to this site, and have been mostly trying to figure out how to get Sims to run on my PC again.


I have Delphy, but it doesn't always find all the duplicates and I don't think its been updated in awhile. Maybe it has a bug. I had to take all my files and put it in one directory to find duplicates. *frowns* I have never seen an option to view the file itself in Delphy. Have I missed an important feature that I wasn't aware of? I have been using it off and on for years!

Yes, I just started using the Clean Installer. I had never used it before. I kept seeing posts that said to use it because it is supposed to help and not make all those numbered files. Guess I should have downloaded it years ago.

Right now, I wish I could find out why the FT No CD Patch doesn't allow me to use cheats. *grumbles*

WS

Well, I have two related problems.

1) I have Sims and expansions up to FT. I found SecuRom on my PC, and tried to follow the directions to get rid of it. The only thing I can find is the registry keys, not any folder. The first step with the DLL file didn't show anything. I searched my registry and didn't find any null files.

My game on my PC won't load a house now, it just crashes, and I am unsure if just deleting the registry keys will take care of the problem. I am running Sims on Windows XP on the Administrator account on my desktop.

Anyway, I got frustrated and installed it on my laptop and used the No CD Crack... on to problem 2.

2) The CD Crack for FT works fine except one thing. I can't use the CTRL-SHIFT-C anymore! I type the keys and it don't work! I checked my computer to see if any hot keys were assigned to that function but didn't find any. I am running Windows Vista Premium on my Laptop.

Any ideas? I have tried all the downloads at GameCopyWorld and all of them work, but none allow me to pull up the cheat window.

WS

Okay, I don't know exactly what that means. The guy that sold me told me that I had to Download disk 1 to my HD, change the autorun.config file to show the language in English and install it from there. Man, too bad I didn't know this when I installed this yesterday. For future reference, could you tell me how to do this encase I have to re-install something in the future?

Thanks!

WS

Well, I have another problem that might not help. All my versions are in THAI, not English. There was this guy on eBay was selling everything up to Pets at the time, for a very good price, and he even through in several free packs. Do you know if a US version installed over a Thai that was converted to English will work? If so, do you know which site I should be downloading it from? There are so many sites out there that have false versions. I don't want to spend a week or two downloading a file only to find out that it's not a workable version. It's so frustrating. *chuckles*

As far as my Downloads directory: I am trying to find a way to view package files so I can see if I want to get rid of them. Don't you hate file names that are all numbers and you have no idea what it is? *chuckles*

WS

Well, I am on dialup at this time, so it's either "buy it" or take years to download it off the internet from somewhere. If someone has a better idea, I am all ears. I really want to play AL...

Thanks for everyone's ideas. I already have my download directory organized in several categories. Does it matter how deep the folders go, because I did see something that confused me. It said that certain files shouldn't be in sub folders. Is that just a rumor, or is that something that can be substantiated? It says:  eye color, glasses, lipstick, blush, eyeliner, eyeshadow, costume makeup, skin tone, hair color, hair mesh, clothing.

WS

P.S. It's not that I want SecuRom... trust me I don't. However being on dialup is not conducive to help me out of the situation.

I have been downloading custom content since I first purchased the game several years ago, however I hadn't thought about this until now. I have all the games up to Free Time, and haven't been able to buy Apartment Life, or IKEA yet.

I was wondering how I could clean out my downloads directory of the old non compatible files that I have downloaded for previous versions of the game. Is there a program or some sort of way of figuring out which ones won't show up in my game without having to go through every single catalog and write down names of stuff that appears?

WS