Hi all!, Im a noob at sims but used to mods and what not through other games but for some reason i cannot get this to work, I used the uac monkee tool and it accepted all the files in which i executed them to sims3, I have framework 3.5 sp1 installed on vista 64 bit, admin privs & ive done everything the directions said but nothing i installed is showing ( patterns, more realistic bodies & everything else ) and im wondering what i could possibly be doing wrong, Sorry for such a long post but i didnt find any support threads in the forums

Also when i installed them from the right click i put all of them to the top selection of Sims 3, I didnt pick any particular folders and was wondering if that might be the case?

Thanks to anyone that can shed some light on this

I'm not sure if Delphy's Monkey tool works with 64-bit Vista due to the "program files" directory being different, e.g. folder is called 'program files (x86)'* on 64, I believe.

Remember that mods (manually) install into C:\Program Files (x86)*\Electronic Arts\Sims 3\. You should find a 'Resource.cfg' file and a folder called 'Mods' with another folder called 'Packages' inside that. The Packages folder should be the "default" folder the Monkey installs to with the Hacks, Misc, Skins being the sub-groups. Hope that helps!

* Disclaimer: Don't quote me on the actual folder name as I run 32-bit Windows 7.

Edit: I forgot to mention folder permissions. Make sure your user account has full permission on the packages folder and the others, even if you are admin. I dunno about 64, but 32-bit Vista had a nasty habit of considering "user admins" as regular users. I'd imagine the process is the same- go to the folder, right-click and select properties then the security tab. I think you can figure it out from there.

Vista does have issues with permissions, mostly I have found when the user account type is changed. But a restart helps to reset them properly. As to getting your stuff in the folder, try copy/paste and not dragging it, Vista seems to take issue with that more.

And the folder is C:\Program Files(x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3.

The Monkey takes the installation path from the registry, so unless that's wrong it doesn't matter where things are installed. I use it fine with my TS3 directory in F:/Programs/Games