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Old 05-02-2008, 09:13 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Greg View Post
Yeah, that would do it. It would be like having "Remove Before Flight" streamers hanging on the game.

I find that I want to resist doing that only because it adds another step to starting up the game. It seems so silly to have to fix software every time you start it.
Should be possible to use a batch file to automate the task. You'd then point the shortcut that runs Sims 2 to the batch file, which would do its thing, then call the actual game. If the batch file programmer was exceptionally clever, one could actually have it automatically restore the "remove before playing" directory after you exit the game.

Must experiment, see if I can wrangle something up, though I can see one rather big problem. How does one find the proper data to.... Ah! I see. ::points to his CMD screen and the list of environment variables:: Shouldn't be terribly hard, now that I know that %homepath% is the place to look for the proper path for the thing.

::After working with it for a while with no success::
Or... not. Looked easier than it was. Typical of Windows scripting.

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