Sims 1 and 2 can not work home vista

[Marky.]

Please can someone help my daughter.

We can not play either Sims 1 or 2 on our new Dell PC with Home Vista.

 

[VRG Scotty]

Please can someone help my daughter.

We can not play either Sims 1 or 2 on our new Dell PC with Home Vista.

Try installing them as administrator (right click the setup.exe then run as
administrator)

 

[Marky.]

I will try that thanx for your help.

Try installing them as administrator (right click the setup.exe then run as
administrator)
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[Andy [YaYa]]

I will try that thanx for your help.

What error message are you getting? What model Dell are you using
(Dimension ____)?

More info will result in a better answer than installing as admin. Sims
1 complete and Sims 2 (any) should install normally in Vista.

FYI, so does Sims 3, but i'm not allowed to talk about that yet.

 

[Andy [YaYa]]

Weird. I have Windows Vista and I can play the Sims 2, along with three
of the expansion packs, without error and have been since I bought it.

Then again, I bought Sims 2: Deluxe...so maybe it had the patches
already included.

It does, each re-release of Sims games includes the patch for that game,
when you run a new expansion you basically don't run the old version, so
the only patch you need is for the newest expansion that you own.