::thinky-face::  Odd.  I'll try about anything at this point, so thanks for the advice.  What gets me is that Windows is being so aggressively proactive with shutting down BS as soon as it goes not responding.  It won't give the program time to load the way it had before.

It's Vista, and I just figured out how to start BS as administrator.  I'm waiting for it to load even as I type this.

Edit: It STILL preemptively/proactively closed BS as soon as it went not responding in the task bar.  This is very aggravating!

I routinely delete my cache files.  I just removed all of my Saved Sims and Downloads and Body Shop still appeared on the taskbar then went not responding then Windows went through its "searching for a solution to the problem" and closed BS. This is leading me to think that some setting in Windows isn't allowing Body Shop to go through that initial phase of not responding.

Thank you.  The simplest fix is always the best one to try first, of course.  I'll remove my saved Sims and see what happens.

Hello, all.  I'm delurking with a very annoying problem.  After reinstalling following a hard drive crash, I can't load Body Shop anymore.  In the past, it's always gone not responding for a period of time but then loaded fine.  Even when I had 6GB of downloads, it loaded.  Now, I get the Windows popup saying that it's searching for a solution to the problem and it closes out BS.  I'm aware this is pretty likely a problem in the Saved Sims folder, but I was wondering if it might be something involving my Windows settings since they changed after the hard drive reinstall.

So might it be some setting I'll  have to change in the Control Panel, or is the good old 50/50 method in my near future?