I want to activate the cheats in IceWind Dale, but am having trouble. I have located the icewind.ini file. The instructions tell you to use a text editor to edit the icewind.ini file. I used notepad but i get lost here. how and in what way am i meant to change the .ini file? I confess I dont know much about this stuff.

So this is what I did do. When i opened the .ini file with notepad i typed in at the top of the page icewindxp.ini. I then went to save the file but a message pops up saying I don't have admin rights to change this. Can anyone plz help me. Like I said I dont know much about this but i can provide more information if needed.

Huge Thnx in advance for any help ^^

cheers Phase.

Open your icewind.ini file with notepad. You'll see whole bunch of things listed there. Scroll down until you find the heading:

[Game Options]

Look for the line:

Cheats=1

If it's not there, just put it in under the [Game Options] heading, exactly as I've typed it (it's case and space sensitive). Save the file, and you should be good to go.

If your machine won't let you save the changes, then you'll probably have to run as administrator.

Hello thnx for ur help. I followed ur instructions and im running as administrator but when i go to save it says "access denied". Think i'll give up but i appreciate your help ^^

Don't give up yet. Try installing to a different folder outside Program Files (maybe make a Games folder on your root drive, C:\Games). Then run as admin when you edit the file. This may work for you.

I must be getting closer. Before i modified the icewind.ini, in game i would press ctrl-tab and nothing happened. I just followed the instructions and now in game when i hit ctrl-tab a dialogue box opens up.

In this box i try to type CHEATERSDOPROSPER:EnableCheatKeys();

but when i hit enter the game says "Nice try cheater" and nothing happens :(

so close but still not there, do u have any further suggestions. Thanks to your instructions i know a little bit more about computers which is good cheers.

Try GETYOURCHEATON:Enable CheatKeys(); instead.

I'm not at home, so can't check, but try:

GETYOURCHEATON:EnableCheatKeys();

I believe this is what the cheat code was changed to when HoW was added to the game.

Thanx everyone...it's working now! My big brother wouldnt help me so thnx very much ^_^