I am very pleased it worked. I suddenly had a thought, why is that file in there when it should be in your system folder? So happy your game is working again.

Sorry I didn't get back but I have been busy with work and kids....
I'm so glad you got it sorted, I pasted a copy of my bin folder in an earlier post without those files in there as well and I actually thought you had deleted them from yours. LOL I didn't realise you left one of them in there.
I'm glad you didn't have to reformat. Although Im surprised that when you uninstalled the game it didn't remove the whole folder and place a new one there (minus the problem .dll file) when you reinstalled it... Anyway happy simming....

Well, as I said, I didn't actually redownload the whole game, I did a trick install. I copied the install folder into a backup folder, uninstalled the game, made sure the folder was removed before placing the copied/backed up one back in place, then install, it verified the files, and it was installed again, but little did I know that that problem dll was in the backed up folder, meaning it got pasted in. If I had done a complete reinstall, the problem would've been solved. But that would've meant a 10GB download. Still, problem solved, avoided reformat, windows repair, and redownloading the game. Imagine what would've happened had I done windows repair? Problem would've still been there, lol.

I'm glad I can finally play with my simmies again! :D