It's Windows 7 which is just as bad.

I did find the sku in regedit - it was in HKEY-LOCAL-MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Wow6432Node/Sims/The Sims 3.

Changed that to region 1 to download the latest patch (could only find 1 and 2, not 7).

Went through the installation of the patch, then it said "Update error, Invalid file found".

Replaced the codeversion file that had the error, with the original.

Tried again, same thing.

So I can't even download the latest patch let alone the new expansion pack because of this stupid obsession with being updated.

And like I've said I've followed what others have said when they've had problems with downloading latest patches and the new ep, so am totally at a loss.

So I worked out what to change in the skuversion text file but it says "access denied".  So "Big Brother" even prevents us from editing the files on our own computers!

I can find the sku text file but have looked in regedit and there doesn't seem to be anything named sku to click on, and I'm not sure which part of the text file I should change anyway, hmm am feeling rather noobie at the moment.  Furtheremore I cannot update as there's an error with that related to a problen file, I changed the file to the original, took out the mods, replaced many of the other files with the originals from the iso file as well, and still cannot update or install the new expansion pack.

I have a downloaded version of the base game and have just finished downloading the expansion pack, but cannot install it.  It says it has to be updated, I click "yes", but then it tells me there's an "error with the sims 3 update setup is unable to continue."  Anyone any ideas on what I am doing wrong, or what I can do to fix this?

Many thanks in advance.