Hello and thank you for responding.
Within the three dots, these are my only options.
Play
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Time played:
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Manage on Steam
I went to Steam and there is an option in Settings/Manage/Add Desktop Shortcut, but it still didn't work.
If you bring up Task Manager (ctrl + alt + del), and then start The Sims, you can find it in the list of processes. Right-click on "The SimsTM 4" and select "Open File Location." That will bring you to "TS4_x64.exe" which you can again right-click on, and then you can hit "Create Shortcut" and drop that onto your desktop; or you can select "Pin To Start," which is what I did, and that worked for me to go directly into loading the game instead of having to meander through the EA app first (at long last). It does still open the EA app, but it shifts into The Sims on its own shortly thereafter without you having to do anything else.
