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Cheeze · 05-15-2008, 03:14 PM

The only game that was installed that stopped working was the sims complete collection.

It started to lock up and freeze on me so i was going to uninstall and reinstall to see if that might remedy the issue but uninstalling it was the same as installing it just wouldn't work without an outside program forcing it to uninstall...

I used REVO uninstaller to accomplish removing it finally.

This computer came pre-equipped with vista and the sims installed fin about 3 months ago and then all these problems kicked up recently.

After some more digging after my post last night it seems like games that use install shield are having difficulties with vista recently.

I tried a game that I had that does not use install shield (Starcraft and Starcraft: Broodwar) and they installed just fine.

My Computer is a Dell XPS 410 and the most recent updates were installed 5/10 until yesterday when the auto installer installed 3 more.

Not sure if the games are compatible with vista but I would assume sims was until a recent update that caused this problem with install shield.

05-15-2008, 03:14 PM	#4 (permalink)
Cheeze Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 2 OS: Vista	Re: Unable to install programs to my computer running vista The only game that was installed that stopped working was the sims complete collection. It started to lock up and freeze on me so i was going to uninstall and reinstall to see if that might remedy the issue but uninstalling it was the same as installing it just wouldn't work without an outside program forcing it to uninstall... I used REVO uninstaller to accomplish removing it finally. This computer came pre-equipped with vista and the sims installed fin about 3 months ago and then all these problems kicked up recently. After some more digging after my post last night it seems like games that use install shield are having difficulties with vista recently. I tried a game that I had that does not use install shield (Starcraft and Starcraft: Broodwar) and they installed just fine. My Computer is a Dell XPS 410 and the most recent updates were installed 5/10 until yesterday when the auto installer installed 3 more. Not sure if the games are compatible with vista but I would assume sims was until a recent update that caused this problem with install shield.