Marshmallowycat Those entries are fine, just Windows itself saving data about having launched the app.
I would suggest doing a repair install of Windows to address any potential issues with the registry or other hidden files. It's a relatively quick process and shouldn't delete any of your data. Here's how (option two):
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/repair-install-windows-11-with-an-in-place-upgrade.418/
If you get to step 14 and are NOT asked to keep personal files and apps, back out and start over.
When you're done, please install the game again through Steam, as it's less prone to error than the EA App. Install the game into another new folder, and donwload all the packs that come with it; if you don't want to use some of them, we'll deal with that later. Try to launch the game with no Alder Lake workaround first, and let me know whether you get the service initialization error or none at all. If the latter, use the Task Manager workaround, again applied to TS3W.exe.
I did the repair Windows install but Sims 3 is still not launching. Nothing is happening without the task manager fix and with it it takes around 3-4 minutes for the game to start and then it just crashed with an error sound but no error message or with the error message
