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Skype under Microsoft really infused itself with MS spirit. - you cannot turn off Skype updates. Please try. For longer than 2 week, Skype will update itself a
by joering2 13y ago
Skype under Microsoft really infused itself with MS spirit.
- you cannot turn off Skype updates. Please try. For longer than 2 week, Skype will update itself anyways and will keep telling you "would you like to update". Totally deceiving. Turning Skype updates don't help. They are done through Windows 7 updates. Turning those does not help either LOL.
- on the top of those forces updates, each time (at least on Windows 7), you have to re-do the following: - delete "echo / test account", re-do your notifications, re-do sound settings, re-do all confirmations (delete contact, close skype, accept file, etc).
- I beg someone to give me a genuine, smoothly working alternative with ios app. Honestly at this point, security comes second as long as I can avoid Microsoft.
- kamjam 13y agohttp://portableapps.com/apps/internet/skype_portable http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/skype_portable There you go, no need to mess around with auto updates :)
- MrDOS 13y agoDo they have an archive of previous versions? Due to annoying incompatibilities between recent versions (6.0+) of Skype and skype4pidgin[1], I've been considering switching back to 5.0. [1] http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/ http://code.google.com/p/skype4pidgin/
- kamjam 13y agoI think with portable it still connects to the Skype site to download the required files at initial setup. You could install from: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/skype/ http://www.oldversion.com/windows/skype/
- MrDOS 13y agoAh, alright. I'm familiar with OldVersion and that was how I was originally anticipating installing it, so I guess that's what I'll do.
- yuhong 13y agoI think it is good that it is included in Windows Update, but the failure to import settings is bad.