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And lo On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:24:22 +0100, Sherry K. Shaw
<ten### [at] aol com> did spake thusly:
> 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?
Have you tried running it under compatibility mode?
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Phil Cook
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