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Old January 30th 19, 07:59 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Pat
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I'm using Windows 10 1809. Twice today, Skype showed up in the tray.
There doesn't seem to be an exit command in the menus - just a "hide".
I knew Skype was installed, but I almost never use it. I can't find
what is starting it up. If I open it and then kill it with task
manager, it goes away but then comes back later. Any ideas why this
started happening today?

Pat
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Old January 30th 19, 08:47 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Frank Slootweg
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Pat wrote:
I'm using Windows 10 1809. Twice today, Skype showed up in the tray.
There doesn't seem to be an exit command in the menus - just a "hide".
I knew Skype was installed, but I almost never use it. I can't find
what is starting it up. If I open it and then kill it with task
manager, it goes away but then comes back later. Any ideas why this
started happening today?


Is this about the Skype *app* (i.e. the Metro/Modern/UWP/whatever
style app) or the Skype *program*?

If the latter, then:

- While in Skype:
- Settings (three horizontal dots) - General - turn off
'Automatically start Skype' switch.

- On the Taskbar (assuming that's what yoy mean by "tray"):
- Right-click on the Skype icon - Quit Skype.

Now Skype is no longer running and will not be restarting on the next
(Windows) login.
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Old January 30th 19, 09:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Pat wrote:
I'm using Windows 10 1809. Twice today, Skype showed up in the tray.
There doesn't seem to be an exit command in the menus - just a "hide".
I knew Skype was installed, but I almost never use it. I can't find
what is starting it up. If I open it and then kill it with task
manager, it goes away but then comes back later. Any ideas why this
started happening today?

Pat


Check your Task Scheduler.

Start : Run : control
Pin the Control Panels on the task bar.
Find the Task Scheduler and have a look around.

Microsoft has a weird sense of humor. If you install
some other Microsoft software, say "Outlook 2019" to make
up an imaginary tool, they may want to show your Skype
status as "available" when you enter Outlook. They may have
integration features that detect your presence and make
you visible to other Skype users. To support such behaviors,
perhaps the new software you installed, added a Skype rule
to keep it awake.

Paul
  #5  
Old January 31st 19, 04:01 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Pat
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On 30 Jan 2019 19:47:31 GMT, Frank Slootweg
wrote:

Pat wrote:
I'm using Windows 10 1809. Twice today, Skype showed up in the tray.
There doesn't seem to be an exit command in the menus - just a "hide".
I knew Skype was installed, but I almost never use it. I can't find
what is starting it up. If I open it and then kill it with task
manager, it goes away but then comes back later. Any ideas why this
started happening today?


Is this about the Skype *app* (i.e. the Metro/Modern/UWP/whatever
style app) or the Skype *program*?

If the latter, then:

- While in Skype:
- Settings (three horizontal dots) - General - turn off
'Automatically start Skype' switch.

- On the Taskbar (assuming that's what yoy mean by "tray"):
- Right-click on the Skype icon - Quit Skype.

Now Skype is no longer running and will not be restarting on the next
(Windows) login.


Good question (metro vs program). It turns out, both were installed.
The older program works as you described and was already disabled set
as you recommended. It was the metro app that was running this
morning that I had to kill with task manager. Right clicking didn't
offer "quit" but it had "hide". Neither version was listed in
start-up as displayed by task manager.
  #6  
Old January 31st 19, 04:08 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Pat
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 15:03:59 -0500, Paul
wrote:

Pat wrote:
I'm using Windows 10 1809. Twice today, Skype showed up in the tray.
There doesn't seem to be an exit command in the menus - just a "hide".
I knew Skype was installed, but I almost never use it. I can't find
what is starting it up. If I open it and then kill it with task
manager, it goes away but then comes back later. Any ideas why this
started happening today?

Pat


Check your Task Scheduler.

Start : Run : control
Pin the Control Panels on the task bar.
Find the Task Scheduler and have a look around.

Microsoft has a weird sense of humor. If you install
some other Microsoft software, say "Outlook 2019" to make
up an imaginary tool, they may want to show your Skype
status as "available" when you enter Outlook. They may have
integration features that detect your presence and make
you visible to other Skype users. To support such behaviors,
perhaps the new software you installed, added a Skype rule
to keep it awake.

Paul

Nothing obvious in task scheduler, but I'll pay attention to the time
if it happens again and see if any task were scheduled at that time.
(It hasn't happened since the 2nd time this morning).
  #7  
Old January 31st 19, 04:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Pat
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:37:54 -0500, Jason wrote:

In article ,
says...
Any ideas why this
started happening today?

Nope. An update perhaps?

In any case, start Task Manager, click the Startup tab,
and disable its startup.


No updates since the 25th and those were two office related updates
plus one "dot net" update. (I normally have updates enabled, but I
was out of town earlier in the month and had updates temporarily
disabled. I turned them back on on the 25th. That's why they weren't
on patch Tuesday).

Regarding the start-up tab, skype wasn't listed there. I think I'm
going to uninstall both versions. I can always reinstall them if I
need them in the future.

Thanks,
Pat

  #8  
Old January 31st 19, 04:21 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Pat
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:13:57 -0500, Pat
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:37:54 -0500, Jason wrote:

In article ,
says...
Any ideas why this
started happening today?

Nope. An update perhaps?

In any case, start Task Manager, click the Startup tab,
and disable its startup.


No updates since the 25th and those were two office related updates
plus one "dot net" update. (I normally have updates enabled, but I
was out of town earlier in the month and had updates temporarily
disabled. I turned them back on on the 25th. That's why they weren't
on patch Tuesday).

Regarding the start-up tab, skype wasn't listed there. I think I'm
going to uninstall both versions. I can always reinstall them if I
need them in the future.

Thanks,
Pat


Adding an update to my reply of a few minutes ago... When I went to
uninstall the metro version of skype, it said it had been installed
today (January 30th). Hmmm, I didn't do that and nothing was listed
as having been updated today.
  #9  
Old January 31st 19, 06:36 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Posts: 11,873
Default Skype

Pat wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:13:57 -0500, Pat
wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:37:54 -0500, Jason wrote:

In article ,
says...
Any ideas why this
started happening today?

Nope. An update perhaps?

In any case, start Task Manager, click the Startup tab,
and disable its startup.

No updates since the 25th and those were two office related updates
plus one "dot net" update. (I normally have updates enabled, but I
was out of town earlier in the month and had updates temporarily
disabled. I turned them back on on the 25th. That's why they weren't
on patch Tuesday).

Regarding the start-up tab, skype wasn't listed there. I think I'm
going to uninstall both versions. I can always reinstall them if I
need them in the future.

Thanks,
Pat


Adding an update to my reply of a few minutes ago... When I went to
uninstall the metro version of skype, it said it had been installed
today (January 30th). Hmmm, I didn't do that and nothing was listed
as having been updated today.


https://mobilesyrup.com/2019/01/25/o...ion-microsoft/

"By Jonathan Lamont Jan 25, 2019 4:54 PM

Microsoft is rolling out OneDrive integration for Skype, allowing
users easy access to their files.

Thanks to OneDrive support, Skype users can now send Office documents,
PDFs or any of the other 300 file types supported by OneDrive. To use
the feature, simply sign into Skype with the same Microsoft account
associated with OneDrive. Then open the chat you’d like to send a
file to, tap the + button in the bottom left corner and select
OneDrive.
"

And of course, from time to time, OneDrive updates have been
extra aggressive like that too. I've had that happen even on
Win10 setups that aren't using an MSA.

The feature above, appears here to have been a plugin of some sort.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/1...kype_onedrive/

Paul
 




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