> Today I spent, oh, I don't know, about a century and a half unscrewing
> various Vista "features" on my brother-in-law's pc. Then he decided that
> he wanted to install The Sims Deluxe (plus a whole bunch of expansions).
> My sister had been playing the thing on her XP 'puter, no problems.
>
> Put CD in drive. Accept legal crap. Accept default locations. Dialog box
> finally appears in which to enter product key.
>
> Product key is something like: 1234 - 1234567 - 1234567 - 1234
> Entry fields have exactly enough space for: 123 - 123456 - 123456 - 123
>
> See the problem?
>
> So now I've spent another century and a half googling for a solution, to
> no avail. Anybody got any ideas?
>
> --Sherry Shaw

Just enter all the digits, the fields are realy large enough to receive 
them all, but the box is not large enough to show them all.
It appens prety often when you change the DPI setting. The application 
ASSUME 75 or 96 DPI and have boxes size hard coded in pixels, the OS use 
96 or 120.

Alain

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