Kan inte installera The Sims 1 på windows 7

This is to do with UAC. With UAC, you effectively have 2 profiles, your normal one, and the administrative one that programs run in after you get the UAC prompt.

When you map a network drive, it maps under your normal profile, however when you run SIMSinst, it runs under the 'elevated' profile, which doesn't have the drive mapped. Here's what I did:

1. Map the network drive the normal way through explorer or net use. This will give your normal account access to the drive and it will show up in my computer.
2. Open an 'elevated' command prompt: start>programs>accessories> right click 'Command Prompt' and select 'Run as Administrator'
3. Use the 'net use' command to map the network drive again. 'net use S: \\sims_server\sims /y'
4. Run the SIMS setup again, and it should work now.