I've got Prince of Persia Sands of Time long time ago... I played it on Windows XP and it was cool...

I installed the game on Vista Business 32bit on my laptop yesterday night played for about 2 hours..
closed the game... put my laptop on sleep... then today... the game won't run...

Restarted Windows couple times, Un-installed the game and installed it again... tried with the compatibility option..
also tried running the game as admin.. and no good !!!!

interestingly the game was running like a charm just yesterday... and today doesn't... which made me really crazy

I was observing Task Manager.. and interestingly.. when I run the game... the game appears on the list of the processes and disappears after 2 seconds....

Looking over the internet for known compatibility issues with Vista.. and it was reported that the trilogy of Prince of Persia working smoothly... (reported on wikipedia and other websites)

I love the game so much.. and really wish to play it again...

so if somebody know how to fix the problem.. I will really appreciate it...

Thanks in advance...