Installation ... Installing or uninstalling the Sims 2, expansions, stuff packs, or game patches, and stuff that happens right after you've installed something new.
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| 12-24 Hour Clock
| How to change the clock from 24 hour "military" time back to 12 hour time.
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| Change Game Language
| How to change the language of all the game's text.
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| Install
| What to do if you're having trouble installing the game, expansions, or stuff packs.
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| Patching Your Game
| A guide to the patches, which ones you need to install, and why you need patches.
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| Poor Graphics Quality After New EP Install
| If you've just installed a stuff pack or expansion and your game suddenly looks terrible.
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| Preparing for the Next Expansion
| What to do before purchasing and installing a new expansion or stuff pack.
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| Red Flashing Walls
| If your walls and foundations are flashing red after installing a new expansion or stuff pack.
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| Uninstall
| How to uninstall Sims 2, expansions, or stuff packs, what to do first, and if you're having problems uninstalling.
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Custom Content ... Everything related to downloading, installing custom content, and problems with it.
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| Bad Lot
| If your game crashes when clicking on a custom lot in the lot bin.
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| Custom Content Shows up Incorrectly
| If your downloaded items don't look like they're supposed to.
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| Custom Neighborhood Terrains
| Information on custom neighborhood maps/terrains.
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| Custom Objects on OfB Shelves
| How to place your custom items on shelves to sell in shops.
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| Download Accelerator FAQ
| How do I download from MTS2 without worrying about files being cut off, or taking a long time to download? Why can't I use my download accelerator to download from MTS2?
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| Downloading for Fracking Geniuses
| A quick summary on how to download and install custom content, for computer-savvy users.
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| Downloading for Fracking Idiots
| How to download and install custom content, explained in the simplest way possible, with pics!
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| Finding Problem Custom Content
| How to find problem or unwanted custom content to remove it from your game.
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| Expansion Pack Data Not Installed
| If you're getting a "This content requires expansion pack data that is not installed," error when installing a lot, sim, or pet.
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| Getting Custom Content to Show Up
| If some, all, or none of your downloads are showing up.
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| GUID Conflicts
| About GUID conflicts, and how to find conflicting items.
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| Maxis Content Manager
| Information on the Maxis content manager tool for custom content.
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| Meshes and Recolors
| What is a mesh, what is a mesh recolour, and why you need to know what they are.
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| No Downloads Folder
| What to do if you're missing a Downloads folder.
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| No Longer Prompted to Save Files
| If your computer has stopped asking you where you want files saved when you download.
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| Organizing Custom Content
| How to clean out, organize, get rid of, and fix up your mess of downloads.
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| Poly Counts
| What poly counts are for meshes, what's a good and bad poly count, and why you need to know.
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| Q-Xpress
| Information about Q-Xpress, a program to download and install content from MTS2.
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| RAR
| What RAR archive files are, and how to use them. Anyone can use RARs!
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| Removing Default Replacements
| How to find default replacement skins, eyes, and other overriding content to remove it from your game.
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| Too Much Custom Content?
| How much is too much custom content, and is there a limit to the number of downloads you can have?
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| What are Hacks?
| Information on what hacks/mods are, and why you need to know.
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Gameplay ... Information that will be helpful in the various aspects of playing Sims 2.
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| Cheats
| A list of the game's cheats, with instructions and descriptions on how to use them.
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| Cheat Box Won't Appear
| What to do if you can't get the cheat box to show up.
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| Testing Cheats
| Information on the game's testing cheats (aka boolProp).
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| Userstartup.cheat
| How to automatically enable cheats so you don't have to type them each time you play, and shorten them so you don't have to type so much.
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| Adoption
| Adopting children has never been so easy!
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| Aliens
| Everything you ever wanted to know about little green men from outer space.
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| Babies
| Well, the bun's out of the oven... what do you do now?
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| Babies and Children
| Direct links to all our guides on breeding and raising kids in Sims 2.
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| Careers and Jobs
| A guide to excelling in the workplace, and all the job levels and stuff.
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| Change Last Name
| How to change the last name/family name of sims in your game.
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| Change Lot Zoning
| How to change a lot to/from residential, community, dorm, or secret society.
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| Changing Sims' Appearance
| How to change everything about how your sims look - face, hair, eyes, makeup, clothes, skintones, etc.
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| Children
| Making the most of a fun time in a young sim's life.
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| Choose Gender of Babies
| Want a boy, or a girl, and getting the wrong gender? Here's how to get a baby of the desired sex.
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| Creating Sims
| How to make interesting, unique sims, and how to create sims to produce beautiful children.
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| Death
| All the ways to die, ghost colours depending on method of death, etc.
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| Community Skilling
| Not gaining skill points when doing skill stuff on a community lot? Here's why.
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| Deleting Neighborhoods
| How to remove a neighborhood from your game.
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| Disable Censor Blur
| How to get rid of the blurred pixellation when sims are nude or using the toilet.
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| Extract In-Game Sim
| How to export a sim born in-game or made in Create a Sim so you can remake them or share them with others.
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| Gender Preference
| Information on how gender preference works in the game.
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| Installing Lots Multiple Times
| How to install that perfect house sitting in your lot bin more than once.
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| Inviting More Sims to Parties
| How to invite more sims to parties than the game lets you.
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| Keyboard Shortcuts
| A list of keyboard shortcuts you can use in the game.
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| Moving Sims
| How to move sims from one neighborhood to another the right way, so you don't break your game.
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| The Nanny
| How to deal with the old lady who comes to eat your food and ignore your children.
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| Parties
| Throw a tremendous bash that has everyone in the neighborhood talking for weeks!
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| Playing Your Own Music
| Want your sims' radios to play your music rather than theirs?
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| Pregnancy
| What to expect when you're expecting a sim baby.
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| Private School
| How to schmooze with the headmaster like a pro.
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| Screenshots and Videos
| A basic guide to taking pictures and making videos in Sims 2, with links to more info.
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| The Social Worker
| What to do if your sim children have been taken away by the social worker!
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| Teens
| All about rearing rebellious teenage sims.
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| Toddlers
| Potty training, learning to walk, playing in the toilet, and more.
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| Windowed Mode
| Run the game in a window, so you can do other things while you play.
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Expansion Packs ... Gameplay and technical issues related to specific expansion packs.
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| Building a Dorm
| How to construct a college dorm for your sims.
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| Build Mode in Dorms
| Enable build mode even when you're playing on a dorm lot.
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| Deleting University Sub-Neighborhoods
| What to do if you want to delete a college/university from your game.
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| Greek Houses
| All about joining a fraternity or a sorority.
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| New Features in University
| Information on the various aspects that University adds to the game.
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| Resurrection
| Returning from the dead... in style. Or not.
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| University
| A basic guide to university gameplay.
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| Zombies
| Gnarrrrr, braaaains.
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| Scope Room
| The 'scope room' interaction, what it does, and why it might not be working for you.
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| Carpool Still Comes
| Bought a car, but still have the carpool showing up? Here's how to drive your own car to work.
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| Cars, Driveways, and Garages
| How to buy a car and set up a driveway and even a garage for your sim, using driveable Nightlife cars.
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| Casual Groups
| Setting up and using casual groups, so sims can go out together, dine together, or go out without dragging the whole family along.
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| Compatability
| Who should date who? Whom? Which sim should date your sim? Find out!
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| Downtown Skilling
| Not gaining skill points when doing skill stuff on a downtown lot? Here's why.
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| Inventories
| Find out how to access and use your sim's inventory.
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| Lot View Options
| What all those lot view options mean... and how to see your neighbors' houses and other buildings.
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| Vampires
| Become a blue-skinned creature of the night.
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| Business Guide
| How to start, run, and not crash and burn a business!
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| Can't Place Custom Objects on OfB Shelves
| How to place custom objects on normal OfB shelves.
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| Disappearing Food
| How to stop a bug which causes sims' plates to disappear out of their hands.
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| Restock Signs In The Wrong Place
| What to do if your restock signs vanish and reappear in the far corner of the lot.
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| Selling Cars
| How to set up the perfect swanky automobile showroom or skanky used car dealership.
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| Servos
| Bleep blop blort whiirrrrrrRrrrRRrr.
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| Servo Graphics Bug
| Why is there a random ray of light/white or yellow line on my screen when I use servos?
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| Stuck At Community Lot Bug
| What to do if your sim gets stuck on a community lot that they own.
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| Flashing Blue Accessories
| What to do if accessories on your sim flash blue when you enter a lot.
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| Jumbled Floor Tiles
| How to fix jumbled up Pets floor tiles.
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| Sim Faces Change
| If your sims' faces change to defaults after you make them...
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| Werewolves
| Howling at the moon, hair growth, and glowing golden eyes.
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| Fishing
| Baits, badges, and bass with squash.
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| Flashing Blue Accessories
| What to do if accessories on your sim flash blue when you enter a lot.
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| Gardening
| Compost, planting, the garden club, the wishing well, greenhouses, and more.
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| Seasons Options Missing
| Missing some options that came with Seasons? Can't fish? Can't make snowmen? Find out why.
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| The Seasons
| Information on seasonal changes in the Seasons EP, as well as info on the seasonal perks that your sims get.
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| Bon Voyage Bugs
| A list of known issues in Bon Voyage which will hopefully be fixed in the patch.
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| Bypassing the Bon Voyage Launcher
| Has Bon Voyage apparently uninstalled a previous EP? Or do you just think that launcher is annoying and cheap? This article explains how to bypass it, and any issues resulting from it.
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| Vacation Mementos
| How to obtain all 45 vacation mementos for your traveller sims.
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Miscellaneous Issues ... How to fix a multitude of miscellaneous malfunctions.
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| Baby Face Problem
| What to do if your baby is born absolutely hideous, or with an eye in the middle of their forehead.
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| Can't Build Walls
| What to do if you can't build any walls at all.
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| Can't Place Doors and Windows
| What to do if you can't place doors and windows in build mode.
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| Delete Cache Files
| Some bugs, like the game not starting, can be fixed by deleting cache files made by the game.
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| Disappearing Food
| How to stop plates of food disappearing from your sims' hands.
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| HUD Disappeared
| If the heads up display (game's blue control panel along the bottom) disappeared and can't get it back, here's what you do.
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| Invisible Fish
| How to make fish visible in fishtanks and ponds.
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| Nude Thumbnails
| Why do some of my custom clothes etc show up as thumbnails of nude sims?
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| Overpriced Lot Bug
| Do you have a downloaded lot that costs a billion simoleons or more? That's a bug, and there's an easy fix.
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| Sim Faces Change
| If your sims' faces change to defaults after you make them...
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| Vanishing Pie Menus
| Pie menus vanish as soon as you open them, before you get a chance to pick an option.
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| Wall Limit
| What to do if you can't build walls after a certain point.
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| Can't Delete Object Recolours
| How to delete recolours when the dustbin icon doesn't show up.
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Bodyshop & Homecrafter ... Having trouble using Maxis-made modding tools?
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| Bodyshop
| Everything you need to know about fixing Bodyshop.
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| Blurry Bodyshop Projects
| Are your Bodyshop creations blurry and pixellated?
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| Homecrafter
| Everything you need to know about fixing Homecrafter.
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Technical & Graphics Issues ... Information on various technical and graphics related issues.
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| Bump Maps and Shaders
| What are bump maps and shaders, and why do you want to use them?
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| Can't Raise Game Resolution
| How to raise the game resolution if the option is greyed out, or if you've just installed a new EP and can't go above 800x600.
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| Flashing Red Walls
| What do you if walls and foundations in your game start flashing red after you install a new Expansion/Stuff Pack.
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| Graphics Cards
| Everything you'll ever need to know about graphics cards, and associated problems.
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| Invisible Fish
| How to make fish visible in fishtanks and ponds.
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| nVidia Blue Screen Issue
| What to do if your game crashes to a plain blue screen, and you have an nVidia graphics card.
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| Onboard/Integrated Graphics Issues
| How to play the game using onboard graphics without blurry textures, crashes, and damaged motherboards.
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| Issues with Dual Core Processors
| How to fix lagging, jerkiness and crashes when using a dual core processor.
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| Slowness on Create-a-Sim Screen 4
| If your game gets really laggy when you go to choose makeup, eyebrows, and glasses when making a sim.
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| Packaging a Lot
| Is it taking a really long time to package up a lot you've created?
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| Backing Up
| How and what to back up before doing anything mildly risky to your game files, or if you're switching computers.
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| Changing Game Language
| How to change the language your game runs in.
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| Change Location of Downloads Folder
| How to change where your Downloads folder is stored.
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| Finding Your License Key
| How to find the serial key for your game if you've lost the booklet.
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| Patching Your Game
| Patching your game is something you should do whenever a new patch comes out - find out why and how here.
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| Problems with No-CD Cracks
| If you cannot place any walls, and you're using a No-CD crack...
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| System Checkup
| Some bugs, like crashing and freezing, can be caused by your computer, not the game. So here's how to take your computer to the GP, DIY style.
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| System Specifications
| How to find out about all the bits and pieces inside your computer, no screwdrivers required.
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| System Requirements
| What your computer needs to have in order to run The Sims 2, its expansions, and The Sims 3.
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