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AlHollandiyah At the moment, does the gray check mark issue happen if your computer is offline? And yes, airplane mode is fine. You could also disconnect from the wifi network you normally use; I think it shouldn't reconnect automatically until you restart or sleep/wake the computer.
If being offline doesn't help, please try yet another clean folder, still in offline mode. If that doesn't help either, let me know whether your user folder is inside OneDrive. It would just say Documents etc. in certain contexts, but you can right-click the Sims 3 folder and select Properties > General to see the Location.
For the login info, I haven't tested in Windows in a long time. But the info does get preserved in macOS, in Keychain Access, which is where password-related info is stored; and I remember that a few years ago at least, clearing Internet Explorer data wiped the record of what packs had been selected in a 1.69 install. So Edge's IE-mode data is where I'd look next.