The only thing I can think of immediately is, has setting the system up
again (I'm taking it you reinstalled Windoze) meant that your set up has
defaulted to Windows Explorer not showing you the file extensions. As I
remember it, it does this by default. It will show you the file names but
not their actual extensions. You can change the setting in the tools
section somewhere. What might have happened is that when you made the file
in Notepad, you saved the name and it saved it as a text file with a .txt
extension (i.e. userStartUp.cheat.txt) because that's what Notepad does but
when you look at it in Explorer, you can't see what the file extension is
because it doesn't show it to you. Check to make sure the file hasn't saved
as a text file (right click on the file and choose properties). If it is a
text file, that's the problem and you need to change the filename deleting
the text extension and making sure the file is called userStartUp.cheat so
the 'cheat' bit is the extension (not a real file type of course but that's
what the game looks for and uses).
Best wishes
maxon
"Karoline Harms" <newsgroupmails RemoveThis @gmx.net> wrote in message
news:5bff6c6tze7z$.1h3e9ty03uy8z$.dlg@40tude.net...
> Hello!
> My system crashed and I had to set everything up new, including Sims2. Now
> my userstartup.cheat won't work anymore and I can't find out why that
might
> be - I've been using one forever now and there was never a problem.
> The extension of the file is correct, it is in the right place and still
it
> won't work...
> I have all EPs up to Seasons and I'll get BV soon. Does anyone have any
> ideas? Help greatly appreciated!
>
> 
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