i have XP also, and i had to re-boot the computer which took off my sims 2, i tryed to re-install it and i am now getting a message saying WINDOWS CANNOT FIND WIN32. what is WIN32? i miss playing sims 2. gosh. it used to work very well on my computer until i re-booted it. is there anyway to get WIN32 back? would playing on a laptop make things harder for me to play sims 2? caz thats what i have been playing it on... well until the re-boot.