Sim City is not a stand alone application.  It isn't portable in other words.  It 
has to be installed on the machine and it populates info into the registry.  Since 
every computer is different (software and hardware combinations)  It is unlikely 
that it will run from the flash drive even if you run the install on both machines 
to the flash drive.  The game keeps track of many things on the system and by changing 
hardware, it knows something is wrong, or may even be an illegal install in some 
cases.

Can you get around it?  Only if both machines are completely identical and it's installed 
on both machines, but then it probably won't  as they have some tricky ways to check 
the system to see if it is properly installed and if the install, the registry and 
the hardware match.  Sort of like the activation in XP...







On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 2:34 pm, 2000_man wrote:

>I tried installing SimCity 2000 to my flash drive....the game only weighs in at 
20 

>megs and easily runs from the drive (I ran it while plugged into my computer...where 

>it was originally installed).  However when I try to run it on another computer 
I 

>always get a "This game is not registered to the system please reinstall".  Is there 

>anything I can do to get around this?   

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