Re: Running "The Sims" on Windows XP Home

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers@nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 05/10/02 

From: "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospam.cableone.net>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 09:35:23 -0600

Greetings --

    The game itself will work perfectly on WinXP (My son plays it & several
of its expansion packs.), provided the user has sufficient access
privileges.

Some Programs Do Not Work If You Log On from Limited Account
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q307091

HTH&GL,

Bruce Chambers
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versa. -- RAH

"Craig Myers" <cmyers33@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:#1WD#Y89BHA.1828@tkmsftngp05...
> I recently changed my computers operating system to Windows XP Home. The
> ability to limit my daughters' ability to add programs was a desireable
> feature. Now the downside of security needs to be dealt with. One of the
> applications my daughters use is THE SIMS. It clearly is not Windows XP
> compatible. Since this is such a popular program I am hoping others may
> have solved the dual dilemmas of
>
> 1. Getting the SIMS to work at all
>
> 2. Allowing Limited users to have access
>
>
> Here is my approach.
> a. Install the SIMS as an administrative account
>
> b. Run it in Windows 98 compatibilty mode
>
> c. Change file permissions to allow limited users to write to the SIMs
> directory. I know that in Windows XP Home I have to go into safe mode to
> make the permission changes on a file.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> I
>
>

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