I have windows 10 and I put the downloads as recommended for windows 7 none of the skins work so I am limited to the ones that came with sims 2, is there a different way to put it in windows 10 ?

I put them all in the mods folder, is that what you do?

In Sims 2 it's Downloads.

But they go in the Documents folder, which with Windows 10 is occasionally read as the Documents folder in One Drive since Microsoft seems to believe that we all have an obsession with putting our documents onto their cloud storage rather than our own computer and would prefer to default to that folder.

Save a game. See if it went to the folder on your computer or to One Drive. If it's there, the game has gotten confused by the Documents folder in One Drive.