Forum:Can't Launch The Sims 3

Hello everybody. I've been playing the sims 2 for quite a while and I thought last month "I think I will go and play the sims 3 today!" But I lost the disc and I tried to uninstall Island Paradise, which failed. Half of the game is gone I can't boot it up anymore after I found the disc last week. But my computer still thinks it's installed. So I threw the file in the bin (Not a real bin the computer bin!) without the uninstall thing coming up. I put the disc back in the hard drive and it does not come up with the install thing. So I gave up. I left it alone for another week. Put the disc back in and got this friendly message:



How do I bypass the launcher? or get rid of this problem. It comes up just as soon at the thing comes up so I can't press play. I really want to play but right now the sims 3 is unplayable.