(I'm not sure if the general Sims 2 forum is the place for this, but it's not really a "help" thing either so... if it's wrong, someone please tell me)

Simple question, I wanna toggle between windowed and full screen mode. I can start the game in both full screen and windowed mode, but I prefer windowed mode and only need the full screen for CAS so the catalog-thingy won't always hide parts of my sims' faces. Is there any way to toggle the windowed mode on and off without restarting the game? (My OS is Win7.)

Not that I know of.

Try another way around
http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=292745

I tried that one, didn't work in this particular case. Normally it's fine anyway, I believe it's because of the windowed mode. It just arranges the stuff however the f it wants and I don't know why.

Is your windowed mode already as large as full-screen and it's still re-arranging everything? If not, you could try this tutorial.

Yes, it is. I tried that solution, and when that didn't work also resized the window to what's my screen resolution with another program. Meaning, size and resolution are exactly the same for me in full screen and windowed mode... twice, so to say (by changing the Graphics Rules and by forcing the window to be the same size through the other program)

This is harder than I thought. Anyone happen to know what difference the game even makes between full screen and windowed? Because windowed and full screen both look exactly the same for me right now, but technically there is some difference between them that keeps things from being arranged the way they are in full screen mode.

I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by things being rearranged. Do you have a screenshot?

Edit: Oh. Never mind. I followed the link and I see it's a widescreen problem. I've never actually played in widescreen which is why I'm confused. Ignore me!