Where do you put your Sims 2 utilities and programs such as SimPE or Hood Checker? I tend to put them in the documents folder because it is easier for me to remember and I send a shortcut to desktop.

I have a Workshop folder with a shortcut on my desktop. This contains, - or contains shortcuts to - all the Sims 2 utilities I have, also Blender, Paint.net etc. that I use for creating. It also contains my Projects folder (with subfolders for each project) a Tutorials folder with downloaded or copy/pasted tuts, a Pictures folder with the screenshots I took for upload and a Completed Projects folder with the compressorised and zipped final versions.

I put them in the documents folder, but a Workshop folder sounds like a better idea, especially since I occasionally play and tune Sims 3 as well. My documents folder is definitely looking a bit untidy since I reinstalled both games.

I only have Sims 2 on my laptop. I would have Sims 3 on my laptop but don't want to kill my poor laptop

I have them in a Folder called Sims 2 Utilities in the root directory of my C: drive (i.e. C:\Sims 2 Utilities). Within my Sims 2 Utilities I have a subfolder for each creator, and then within that a subfolder for each utility. At the moment I only have utilities by Mootilda installed on my new computer, but used to have others on my old computer, and I'll eventually have them all on the new computer too. The ones I have so far are C:\Sims 2 Utilities\Mootilda\Hoodchecker and C:\Sims 2 Utilities\Mootilda\LotAdjuster.

It would probably make more sense to have put the Sims 2 Utilities folder in Documents, but I've been using PCs for a long time now, and I remember that in DOS and early Windows days the standard was to create a folder in the root of the C: drive for each program, and put both the program files and the documents for that program in that folder (the documents preferably in appropriately named subfolders). Of course in DOS days we didn't call them Folders: we called them Directories. (On my first PC I didn't even have a C: drive -- I only had A: and B: floppy drives, and the executable for any program I wanted to run had to be in one of them! Oh happy days!!)

I have most of my games installed in a top-level "Video Games" folder on my C: drive (so C:\Video Games), and I put various utilities for them - including Sims games - in a "Tools" folder under that, with shortcuts in relevant places.