sorry for bad location.
regedit works (Duh to me for bad phrasing!!!), however the the help file I had access to at the time was not for vista so the string was off.
The change language string ,for sims 2 using regedit ,if you have vista is
Regedit - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - SOFTWARE - WOW6432NODE - EA Games - then go to game needing patch - 1.0 - Language - and for English change Hexadecimal value to 1.
Again sorry for misplaced posting and bad phrasing.
Yes I'm a Posting Nube !!!