hi,
try this:
Go to the start menu,
search for HP Health Check,
right click and go to properties,
click the short cut tab,
and then go down to the short cut window.
The short cut for this program is also ctrl+shift+c,
so just change it and your cheats window should work fine.
good luck!
I just wanted to thank you for this piece of advice. My friend just installed the Sims 2 and has Windows Vista, and I couldn't figure out why the cheat bar wouldn't come up (I run XP and, of course, have had no problems). In searching for the answer as many people have had this problem, the only answer that many people could give was 'you have to hold down ctrl+shift+c at the same time'. As though we hadn't already tried that. Your advice solved the problem, so thank you for paying attention to the question and being a great help!
I am on a mac and I have no problems with my Sims 2 and I never have. I can open the cheat box with control shift C. I can do all the cheats including "motherlode" and "kaching" and "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true or false" and "max motives". They all work fine with my game and I have sims2, seasons, family fun stuff, and open for buisness.
u don't actually start the program, you have an icon in the start menu - HP Health check - and you right clikc the icon not actually run the program then right click - easy
Oh god you are like my hero! It worked and I thought it'd never get fixed >_> thank you so much! You are a genius, I would have had to work for my money like your supposed to do ^_^ haha but not anymore thanks to you. Seriously, your awesome!
I went to Hp health check and tried to change it but it just kept saying "NONE" so I just left it alone and went back to my game. I held down ctrl+shift+c and sure enough it worked! So just leave it to NONE. I have a Hp laptop with Vista
so will I just leave tehgame for a little while then go bak to it later on ? cause yu have the same computer as me and I went to hp heath check and iht says none in the shortcuts , wb x
I have a compaq pc windows vista and I have to hp health check and I dove everything on your list but nothing has ever happend? will youmplease help me out?
OMAADEEEEdude . YER TEH BEST TANKOiLOVE YOU NOW MAN!!!!/WOMAN!!!! haha .JK . seriously thO I thought I wouldnt resoLve thz pRoblem .. THANK YOU THANK YOU A MILLION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know where the short cut tab is or the short cut window.
I have a lap top and it is windows vista hp.
The cheat bar has stopped popping up every time I hold down ctrl shift and c.
Help!!!!!
The cheat that you put up to get the sims 2 window up I have a question. How do you get to Hp health check and when I'm on it how do I get from there because when I go to the start menu I got to HP support and I search for it but I don't know what to click on and what to right click so can you send some directions cause my sims are poor and hungry I need cheats. PLEASE!!!!!!!!
You are awsome! I had been trying all day to fix the cheat menu bar. I tried lots of stuff and it would never work. I tried your trick and it worked. I am sssooo excited, thanks.
This great tank, thanks so much, ive been tryna fix that issue for months,, I had stopped playing the game and just said I was gonna wait for sims 3 to come out before playing sims anymore. everybody else if you have vista, on my last computer update they had changed crtl+shift+c on my shortcut tab, I had to change it to none and it instantly worked.
Thank you so much for writing about the shortcut being " NoNe " I've been looking thru these chats for hours and none of the suggestions worked. Now I can play. Wooh! Hooh!
Hello,
My control key doesn't work or seomthing because when I did what you said the cheat box still didn't pop up. I also tried multiple variations of what you suggested and it still didn't work! What do you think the problem is?
Thanks,
Billy
thanks so so so so so sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much dude! Lik it totally worked great idea ur very logical and smart. Do u play chess.... lol j/k thankz so much though!
This has been about the most helpful thing I have come across in a long time. Thank you so much for this answer. (although I found hp health check under hp folder on start menu on my pc)
Oh my goodness! Thank you so much! It actually worked!!! So happy!
Now my sims can buy a hot tub and have a baby finally! No more long hours at the office! LOL!
To answer Miki....change it to: None
Or any other buttons you want. Cuz when you press the cheat codes on sims, it recognizes it as a shortcut on your desktop not a sims game code... yeah...
A) you need to have an HP and B) if you still have the problem and your not on an HP then it might be another program, soooooo.. look through your programs and find the program using the shortcut.
OMG! I really dont know what to say or how to thank you enough!! I have been searching everywhere I mean EVERWHERE to look for the answer of how to get the cheat box up.. for atleast over a year! I could never find the right answer but thanks to you I can finally enjoy my sims game!! I really thank you for helping me. Youve been sooo helpful!!! thank you thank you thank you thank you time 1000000000000000000.........:):):):):) xx
I have gone into hp health check,
gone to the short cut thing,
and in the short cut thing it already said ' ctrl+shift+c'
i didn't have the option to press the apply key because it wasn't a highlighted choice.
It hasn't done anything :S any answers anyone?
were on earth is HP HEALTH CHECK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :[
OK... I have real stumper for everyone! I want to bring up cheat box to turn off aging for sims 2 but... obviosly I cant, my computer already has ctrl + alt + c used in another program that I cant change my computer does NOT have hp check or mouse xp or anything that I can change it and to boot... U guessed it some ppl say using windows key with alt and ctrl and c combinations work not on my computer ... if anyone knows how I can bring cheat window up another way please help me cause its just annoying...
Hi I also cannot get my cheat bar to come up, altho I have tried all the things listed below, is their something wrong with my game.. I too am running windows vista!!
:DDD IT WORKS!!! What he means by change it though is change the ctl+shift+c to something like c+v+b or something. ^.^ Bu tit works. Damn you vista, confusing my video games again.
omg I think I finally found the answer after so much investigating, I couldnt open it either with all the advice of press this press that, im on a laptop running vista, but thanks so much for ur answer... my sims will love you for it lol I couldnt afford a refrigerator and they starved lol... ill try it asap, I love the positive feed back !!! hoorah for you, I hope I can find HP Health Check thats what showed up on mine....
You know I tried every different way to work this cheat from all the suggestions here on my vista I couldn't get to work the cheats:((( now what?? so pissed I can't work it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
same prob I scared becasue mine said you must ask your adminster to contiue press ........ Ow and will it change anything on the computer exept the sims 2
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OMG thank you so much that was totally the problem I even treid reinstalling and everything and your thing worked thank you again! I have windows vista too!
Wow! Thanks so much for this. I kept pulling up HP Health Check whenever I would try to enable cheats, and I always wondered why, lol! This was very easy, and worked perfectly!
the problem maybe due to other apps too.see if u wanna check just go on desktop and press ctrl+shift+c
the problem maybe due to other apps like cursor fx just uninstall it or change its shortcut
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gone to the short cut thing,
and in the short cut thing it already said ' ctrl+shift+c'
i didn't have the option to press the apply key because it wasn't a highlighted choice.
It hasn't done anything :S any answers anyone?