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It gives the impression that there’s no way to turn it off. What makes things more complicated is the fact that Skype doesn’t show in Task Manager’s Startup tab. Some of the apps that it pushes are easy to ignore but Skype isn’t one of them. Microsoft will continue to push the apps it owns onto Windows 10 users. If you ever have to use Skype, make sure you enable background app activity for it. In Skype’s case, you may miss new message alerts though it’s unlikely that you will miss a call when it comes in. This may mean that you miss important notifications/alerts that an app sends. When an app is unable to run in the background, it cannot update until you open it, or refresh it manually.

You will not get any alerts from the app.Īpps that run in the background do so for a reason they need to periodically check for push notifications.

Close is the equivalent of quit and the Skype app will exit.

Right-click the Skype icon in the system tray.

You won’t have to sign out of the app like before on older versions of Windows 10. If Skype is already running, you can quit it.

To open Skype, look for it in the apps’ list, and run it from there.

When you next shut down and boot to the desktop, or when you next restart the system, Skype will not open automatically.

Look for Skype, and turn the switch next to it off.

This applies to the Skype version on Windi.e., the May 2020 update. The desktop app is long gone and this particular version doesn’t have a setting that can prevent it from running on startup. The Skype version on Windows 10 is the UWP app. It also tends to start when you boot the system.

Skype is installed on a fresh Windows 10 installation by default. This means that you’ll be seeing a lot of Skype whether you want to or not.

If so, we will proceed to download it.Microsoft owns Skype, and it owns Windows 10. From here we will see if we have any pending Windows 10 updates. To do this, we must press the Windows + I shortcut to access the Configuration and here we will select “Update and security”. Likewise, we must always have Windows 10 updated to its latest version so that Skype works without problems. Update Skype and Windows 10įor the video call to work correctly it is important that we keep Skype updated, since otherwise it may offer problems with the camera viewing, so we must ensure that we have the latest available version installed on our computer. You can also choose to restart the computer before using Skype, in this way we make sure that the system has released all the memory occupied by other active applications. Taking this into account, it is recommended in this case to close all the applications that you may have open before starting Skype. Being the PC at maximum performance can cause Skype to not activate the camera correctly on the device. If you have a fairly old computer, with limited RAM memory and you are running several applications at the same time, this could be a problem.