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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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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BTW -- and this was totally my mistake -- I meant to post this in the XP forum (I have a dual boot and forgot that I installed it on XP...if it needs to be moved go ahead and transfer it). So even if i was to copy the registry files to the drive you still think its a no go? Aside from the fact that it's the best in the series that's part of the reason I'm using 2000....since it's almost 15 years old I figure it'd be easy make portable.


On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 3:16 pm, C K wrote:
>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...
>
>
>

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Probably the best thing to try is to install it to the USB drive while it is plugged 
in on both computers.  Then, see if it will run on both.  It is usually more than 
just copying entries as you may not find them all, as well as all the other files 
that will/can be installed in various directories.  You would have to make sure that 
the USB drive always gets the same drive letter for starters.  I haven't worked with 
the 2000 version for a long time and I doubt their support may, or may not, be interested 
in answering your question, but maybe someone on an appropriate forum would have 
a better answer as game questions are be off topic here and may be deleted by the 
webmaster.  Don't know for sure, but I think there is a forum for Sim City, or a 
game forum in general might have some answers if someone is doing it, or has tried 
it..







On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 3:44 pm, 2000_man wrote:

>BTW -- and this was totally my mistake -- I meant to post this in the XP forum (I 

>have a dual boot and forgot that I installed it on XP...if it needs to be moved 
go 

>ahead and transfer it).  So even if i was to copy the registry files to the drive 

>you still think its a no go?  Aside from the fact that it's the best in the series 

>that's part of the reason I'm using 2000....since it's almost 15 years old I figure 

>it'd be easy make portable.  

>

>

> 

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Here is a quote:
"A portable application, or portable app for short, is a software program that does not require any kind of formal installation onto a computer's permanent storage device to be executed, and can be stored on a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, flash card, or even a floppy disk, enabling it to be used on multiple computers."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_application

The link above also has some information about portable apps with Windows with links to other sites that may have more ideas about this topic in general.

Geek9pm

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Yes, I know what a portable app is.  Read my first response to the OP..  You should 
reply to the OP, not me so that he gets an email alert for the reply......

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