I solved my sims problem

[Wembeley]

I installed a bunch of hacks all at the same time just as you read all the time that you shouldn't and I paid the price.  Suddenly none of my custom sims were showing up.  I first tried taking out all hacks but that didn't work. Then I uninstalled and re-installed everything which we all know is a pain, but that didn't work either.  What finally worked was I did fix on regedit and apparently there were some corrupted entries and some items that were referring to files that no longer existed.  So if you're having trouble and have tried all the normal things you might want to fix up you register.  Thank goodness that worked for me because I just don't enjoy playing the game without custom content!