I did the same myself. Nuked the whole thing and started again.

I like the male hairs at http://coris.byus.net/ from myos, and kavars hair at www.insimenator.net , but i had to do a lot of binning.

Good luck   

If you do a have a fairly literate computer person around, ask them to create a different "Hardware Profile", it's kind of like another user account but more powerful, and you'll need to create a different user too.

Go into the control panel and depending on your view get to "system properties", then choose the "Hardware" button, then choose "Hardware Profiles", choose your current profile and then choose copy, then rename the copy you made to "Games" or whatever, so you can see the difference when you choose it later. Also choose what happens when you start, if you want it to boot the default after 30 secs or to wait for you to make a choice.

After you've done that u should also make a another user account. I've made a new user account called "Simmer".

Now, this is where you need the computer literate person, open "services.msc" and start choosing which services you need for that NEW "hardware profile". Choose a component, right click and choose "properties", choose the "Log on" tab, then in the profile window choose the new profile and then click the "disable" button to stop that service from starting under that profile.

I don't use the internet on my games profile so i turn off most of my network services and my firewall and i only open files that i've downloaded for my games so i turn off my antivirus. I only install things on my default profile under my normal user account. I don't burn CD's with that profile so I disable the Imapi CD thingy. No internet access means the Autoupdate thing won't work so i disable that and the antivirus autoupdate.... so on and so on

And yes, get cacheman. I have 784 (?) megs of memory and cacheman reports i have 485 free on the default profile on my default desktop, but it reports 610 free on the games profile with the "simmer" user, and i have the simmer desktop set at 800x600 so i can tell the difference between the 2 different log on screens.

"CAUTION"!!!! User account changes don't affect hardware profiles, so don't use your default user account on your modified hardware profile or things might not work right when you boot into your default hardware profile with your default user account.

So for me, "Simmer" only logs in on "Games" profile and "Default" only logs in on "Loaded" profile.

There is quite a bit of info around the internet about services that run with windows and which ones are neccesary, so get your helper to look for info if your unsure about something...

Good Luck and PM me if you have questions or need any help 

I has a similar problem. The game would minimize to the desktop after about 20 mins... almost every 20 mins... I gradually figured out it was my power management settings.

So, i opened up my control panel, went to the power settings and saw that my monitor was configured to turn off after 20 mins... so, i turned off all my power settings, hibernation, standby, etc. and chose "never" for my hardware settings. Fixed my problem.

Even though the monitor wasn't going off and i was playing the game, the stupid pooter had a mind of it's own. Take a look at your power settings and change everything to "never" and then play the game.... if that helps your problem, turn it all back on and see if the prob comes back...

just a thought....good luck

I point out the spiders to my cat but he's to old to care anymore.   

I use the Visitor adjuster from simwardrobe cuz i always thought the maxis limit was too low for some lots, and how does the limit work if there are employees???

I guess the debug on at the same time as the error is just a coincedence

i'm disabling a few of my community hacks to see if that makes a diff, just thought it was a wierd error and was getting a little annoying

ta

ok... so i played the other lot i haven't played since before ZOMGpetz!!! was installed and it still has the same prob.... gets $164,096 at sort of random times.....

I played the lot for about 1 sim day and nothing happened, but then i turned on debug and it started happening. The sim was a milllionaire in 1 sim hour.... and i had closed the business about 10 sim mins after i turned debug on...

Can having debug on cause errors??? i know i can force errors when it's on but i didn't do anything other than turn debug on and close the business... and debug didn't pop up any errors...

I know i could take out my hacks but most of them are the awesome variety and i'm learning to only have ones i need....

Any Ideas?

Bubble Alley exploit???..... oh, do tell

It's just that it never generates an error when this happens.... doesn't happen at regular times or under certain circumstances.... just happens

I wouldn't mind so much if it happened on all the community lots but it's just these two so far....

Is this one of those hidden Maxian BUGS features???

I've never seen this problem talked about,... but i could just be stupid.

i have a couple of sim owned community lots, that sell stuff, that have odd amounts of simoleons added too them when they are running

This started before i installed ZOMGpets!!! and it's still happening... the lot i played today, but haven't played since before ZOMGpets!! was installed, kept getting $164,096. The owner was a millionaire within 2 sim hours.... not that this is really a bad thing....  but it makes it a bit too easy.

This doesn't happen on all my commnity lots... just these two so far.... i have other lots that sell things and it doesn't happen. I haven't figured out anything these lots have in common yet..

2 diff owners, 1 lot is a art gallery and mostly sells paintings and sculptures, the other is like a department store, sells lots of things, but both have restaurants...

any ideas??? i'm going to play the other lot now to see if the same thing is still happening and too see the amount.

i'm playing with debug on but it's not generating any errors when this happens, or i'd attach an error log if i could...

more details to follow if needed

ta

Control-this-sim works fine for me.... I've got all the ep's/sp's installed

Well.... I had each sim on the lot nuke the dream trackers but the option isn't going away for any of them, but, they don't seem to care anyways... no BFB , so i'm not to worried about it at the moment.

Thanks for the info JM

My game just created a new butt ugly nanny... so i thought i'd fix her up.... no prob there and when i finished that i thought i'd use the newest ffsdebugger to make sure she didn't have any mystery memories or other probs..... clicked on nuke and i saw the option to nuke the scenario controller, but i also saw an option to nuke "Dream Trackers". What the heck are dream trackers? are they bad? do i really want to nuke them? do my other sims have them? is this new? is this a nanny thingy? Should i feel special? Should i wake up? Inquiriung minds need to know.

Ta 

edit: I was controlling the nanny when i clicked on the debugger.

  Well..... here's my bug... My new, fresh, made with NL nieghbourhood REBOOTS my pooter... This usually happens when i scroll the hood, sometimes it's happened when i'm placing a lot.
I knew i would have probs installing NL over my Sims2 + Uni because i changed some data files so i did a new clean install of the game plus the 2 EP's on newly partitoned drive...and since i wanted to create the hood before i started playing the game again, i left my downloads folder out and didn't alter any game files (cameras.txt, graphics.sgr).. but the larger i make the hood the more likely it reboots... but the first time it rebooted it only had 3 lots in the hood.... and sometimes when i start the hood there are wierd graphic glitches... most things white, big red pyramids, missing roads, yellow roofs, etc...
The maxis made hoods don't do this just my custom one.... But i made a large custom hood after UNI came out and never had this kind of prob... Does NL use memory or graphics differently than UNI.... I've seen other post on MTS2 describing almost the exact same prob so i can'r see it being a hardware problem i have.... Any ideas??? need help so i can play the game..