How to get rid of SecuRom, NOW
fantasy:
I'm sorry, but I need complete layman's terms because I still don't quite understand.
Okay I right clicked the Freetime icon and went down to Properties. There's three tabs. General, Shortcut, and Compatibility. I clicked Shortcut. In that tab is
Target type: Application
Target Location: TS Bin
Target:C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 FreeTime\TSBin\Sims2Launcher.exe
Start In:C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 FreeTime
Shortcut Key : None
Run:Normal Window
Comment: Blank
Okay, Now clicking Find target with everything exactly like the above takes me to the TS Bin. In the Bin are 7 icons. The say GDF.ll, Sims2EP7, Sims 2 web,TS2UPD0,ijl15.dll, Sims 2 Launcher(I clicked this once and it took me to the Sims 2 website. It seems this icon makes it so you can play the game online but I don't want that.), and lastly TS2UPD. There are three boxes in this TSBin as well. They are called File and Folder Tasks, Other Places, and Details. Clicking a folder in the Other Places box called Sims 2 Freetime takes me to a place with 9 icons labeled. CS Bin, TS Bin( is now a folder icon) EA unistall,filelist Sims 2ep7unistall,Support,TS Data,EAunistall, Sims 2ep7.
Also for the crack itself I had to download something called a WinRar. After that I downloaded what I hope is the crack(vty0163.rar). Three things came from doing that. In this WinRar are the three things labled. ... and it has a folder icon by it. The second one is Sims 2 ep7.exe, and the third one says Vitality.nfo. I assume that the one labled Sims2ep7.exe is the crack correct? However if it is I do not know how to insert it in whatever it is suppose to go in(don't even know how to get to what it is supposed to go in as you can see from above). I am so sorry,but again thanks. Remember step by step Laymans terms. :-[ :-[
mildlydisguised:
1. In your current TSBin folder rename the Sims2EP7.exe to Sims2EP7.bak
2. Take the Sims2EP7.exe from the crack folder and drag it to your TSBin folder (It will not override your previous Sims2EP7.exe as you have already renamed this to .bak).
3. Right click on your desktop shortcut and chose properties, under the shortcut tab, replace whatever you have in the target line with "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 FreeTime\TSBin\Sims2EP7.exe" -w (This will prevent the game from loading using the launcher which is bad)
Also the -w on the end of the shortcut will load your game in windowed mode so if you don't want that, leave it off.
fantasy:
God, I'm so sleepy. Anyway, thanks. :D Was there anything special that was supposed to happen when I dragged the crack in to the TS bin? Also there was already an icon on my desktop for Free Time. It now says C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 FreeTime\TSBin\Sims2EP7.exe. Is that where I load the game from to play, and can I play on guest like this since that's where I usually played the Sims from(I did all this crack stuff on administrator though.)?
mildlydisguised:
Nope nothing special should have happened, you were just basically moving a file. The only reason we got you to rename the original Sims2EP7.exe was so the crack version you moved into the folder didn't override and replace it.
Provided there is a Sims2EP7.bak file in your TSBin folder along with the Sims2EP7.exe (crack version) on your Guest account. And providing that the shortcut's target is pointing to the same "C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 FreeTime\TSBin\Sims2EP7.exe" that your admin account does then you should be fine. I always use my admin account so have no idea whether the changes that you've made will flow through to the guest account. I would think that you will need to repeat the steps above on the guest account but I am not sure.
fantasy:
Thank-you all so much!! :D I know I was a pain with all my newb questions. It worked!! It loaded perfectly, without the Securom infested CD!! If I hear of anybody having problems with Securom I will definitely be recommending this site. SCREW YOU EA!!!!!!! I'll have to check and see if it works in Guest in the morning. Right now my bed is calling my name...
One more newbish question though. I know the booklet says close all background task using task manager, and anti virus/malware software( I have 3 running on my computer) but does that really matter?I feel my computer is nude with my protection being off, and I'm scared of deleting anything from task manager and then I'll have to constantly keep enabling everything every time I stop playing the Sims and disabling everything when I want to play. Seems tedious. However, even though my gaming computer can take all the expansions, since Bon voyage I have noticed a slowness in the loading screen and just now when I launched FreeTime it was like a minute slow and black screened for a few seconds before going to the neighborhood. So if disabling everything will make it run a bit faster,if not...
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