John Jones wrote:
skype has always been a weird application - the only one that won't go
away if you click the red x.
The latest skype has fixed that: the user interface does close.
But the five tasks using up 170Mb of memory do not.
Remind me: what is the P in PC?
How do I gain some level of control over this ignorant application I
only use once a month?
JJ

The beauty of articles like this, is how they
get out of date quickly.

https://www.howtogeek.com/284864/how...on-windows-10/

[Stop it happening after boot via Options menu]

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content...Qd5HDshTTx.png

[If it's running, the menu is supposed to allow backgrounders to exit]

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content...V6A-mTL_GN.png

And in this (old) thread, it even details how
Skype can be "un-killable" due to a bug.
I didn't know a windows process could do this.
I presume this has been fixed.

https://superuser.com/questions/4528...not-kill-skype

In Windows 7, all you'd have is the PE32 executable )traditional) and
not a Metro App, so you do have that going for you.

Paul