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hello0Wynter
10 years ago

Windows 7 players who can't get Sims 1 to play again...solution!

copy/paste from my answer to this question, so i thought i'd make a thread. yesterday on a whim, i wanted to play sims 1 again. it'd been a few months. well, i could not get it to run at ALL. not ...
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ladysimplayer8
New Adventurer
10 years ago
Hello PiperTim,
After updating with the Microsoft link info, then uninstalling the update KB3086255, did you restart your laptop?
I would also recommend after uninstalling any programme or Windows Update, to do a disk clean up and defragment your laptop too.
Is the CDRom drive working for anything else? Try re-inserting The Sims CD again.
Personally I wouldn't bother enabling the secdrv option - you shouldn't need to.

Good luck with your game! :)

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