I am thinking I might uninstall and the reinstall, I betcha its just glitched up somewhere. But I dont know if I can just uninstall then reinstall the launcher itself or if I have to take out all the games or just the base game or what. Any idea how I could go about that? I just have a feeling it would be fine if I just kicked it out and renegotiated its existence. I think it will beg for mercy and ask to be let back in if it agrees to behave.

I've tried to reason logically with stubborn software before. I've tried arguing with it as well. Out loud and usually when I thought no one else was around to hear me (was wrong about that sometimes). Not sure I've ever managed to hurt software's feelings, get it to acknowledge that it should be responsible for its own actions, or exhibit any forms of remorse. Afraid doing this never really got me anywhere.

The Launcher is not a standalone program that can be uninstalled and reinstalled. As I understand it, if you uninstall the base game on a 1.69 setup, it takes the EP/SPs down with it. You can try all that, but just pointing out that it will be a large undertaking to reinstall it all again.

How much of a load on dbc (sims3pack custom content) and ebc (EA store content) are you giving it to carry, as I described in my setup above?

I am not sure I know how to tell how much of a load it is... I will read it again in the morning and see if it makes any better sense. I am sure it will.

@ladybarefeet I think the question was in your DCCache folder, what's the size of all the .dbc and .ebc files? I'm on a different version, but my launcher's startup time seems very dependent on that, and it sounds like that's still true for 1.69.

@igazor FWIW, I'm still on the 1.67 "special" version that requires Origin and the launcher. I've checked my old folders and it looks like my high water mark was one dbc and 17 ebcs amounting to 3.71G, no decrapping involved. At that point it was taking my launcher about 2 1/2 minutes to show. I didn't pay attention to its RAM use, though. (I eventually ended up converting a lot of that stuff to packages, which does save on launcher start time as expected, but has other upsides and downsides. I haven't tried bringing any of those older saves into one of my newer setups, and don't know if they'd take it well.)

Another thing the launcher does that might be overlooked: it makes .tmp copies of most of its DCCache files. I believe it's safe to delete those, but it'll just regenerate them. If that's still true on 1.69, there's another incentive to install as little in sims3packs as possible, especially if you're short on disk space.

@holp- Yeah, thanks for the feedback. And that tmp file thing is for the birds. I stopped clearing those out after a while since, now that the Launcher is required for me to start my game on 1.69, as you said they just keep coming back with every game session anyway. But it's sure not a very efficient use of drive space.

I am not on 1.69, My my Launcher is also slow but I realize that is the result of my CC addition. What I have noticed with regard to those miserable .tmp files. When I delete them my available RAM increases quite a bit.

I wish I knew how to only use package files... I have lots of 3packs. Hairs of Tsr and lots are my weakness.

Well I just learned that uninstalling just the base game actually causes you to have to download and reinstall ALL the expansions too, I did not think that would be the case since I still saw the programs in my Programs and Apps area. Now, 4 hours later, I can get back to finding the bad cc I have been infected with for the second time.

Dumb Alezzo Bathroom Counter got me again, I let my guard down when I knew better.

I'm sorry that you had to experience the effects of uninstalling the base game (only) when on 1.69 first-hand. We've been telling people what will happen if they do that ever since Origin locked down that strategy back in January but I see that we never included that information on our <a href="http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Patch+1.69">Patch 1.69 page</a>. Bit late to be helpful for you I guess, but it's there now.

Awww ladybarefeet so sorry that happened. Wish you would have see the links Sarah_Sims and I posted further up with the 1.69 Patch detail