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

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On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:24:22 +0200, Sherry K. Shaw <ten### [at] aolcom>  
wrote:

> 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

A shot in the dark: try changing the font sizes in Windows

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On 6/25/2011 5:37 AM, Nekar Xenos wrote:
> A shot in the dark: try changing the font sizes in Windows
>

This problem has cropped up for me several times on Windows 7.


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On 6/25/2011 13:02, posfan12 wrote:
> On 6/25/2011 5:37 AM, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>> A shot in the dark: try changing the font sizes in Windows
> This problem has cropped up for me several times on Windows 7.

This is actually pretty common in all versions of Windows, because the 
dialog box layout has to be done by the application.

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> 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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Alain wrote:
> 
> 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

It *acts* as though the digits aren't being accepted (the Continue 
button never enables), but I'll pass along font size/screen resolution 
suggestions.

I was at my sister's house when I posted the question, but now I'm home 
again.  No air conditioning, but nobody wanting their computer fixed. ;)

--Sherry Shaw

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And lo On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 03:24:22 +0100, Sherry K. Shaw  
<ten### [at] aolcom> 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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Phil Cook v2 wrote:

> 
> Have you tried running it under compatibility mode?
> 

Yes, tried that first.  Also tried installing on a really old XP pc 
(just as far as the product key dialog) and it worked fine.

-Sherry Shaw

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#macro T(E,N)sphere{x,.4rotate z*E*60translate y*N pigment{wrinkles scale
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1;#end camera{location-5*z}plane{z,37 pigment{granite color_map{[.7rgb 0]
[1rgb 1]}}finish{ambient 2}}//                                   TenMoons

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