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Old July 28th 18, 10:29 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
John Jones[_2_]
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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
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Old July 28th 18, 11:03 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default skype 8

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get out of date quickly.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
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Old July 28th 18, 11:38 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default skype 8

In message ,
John Jones writes:
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

See Paul's lengthier reply. But as well as the red X (red if you're
using the default Windows scheme), try right-clicking on the tray icon
and selecting Quit Skype (not sign out; though try that too).

For me, that killed it (rather too well - I couldn't start it up again
even if I wanted to, until the next reboot, but then there's something
odd about Skype on this particular machine - version 8 is the first one
that's connected at all on here, though 7 and before were quite happy on
my other W7 machine).
--
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Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got.
  #4  
Old July 28th 18, 02:50 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
John Jones[_2_]
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Default skype 8

On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 06:03:50 -0400, "Paul" wrote
in article ...

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


Many thanks
JJ
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Old July 28th 18, 02:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
John Jones[_2_]
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Posts: 27
Default skype 8

On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:38:45 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" G6JPG-255@
255soft.uk wrote in article ...

In message ,
John Jones writes:
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

See Paul's lengthier reply. But as well as the red X (red if you're
using the default Windows scheme), try right-clicking on the tray icon
and selecting Quit Skype (not sign out; though try that too).

For me, that killed it (rather too well - I couldn't start it up again
even if I wanted to, until the next reboot, but then there's something
odd about Skype on this particular machine - version 8 is the first one
that's connected at all on here, though 7 and before were quite happy on
my other W7 machine).


Great! I hadnt noticed that option. I haven't tried to restart skype
yet, but if it needs many tasks to make it work it may be that one has
to reboot. Seems a small price to pay.

One of Paul's quotes says "MS killed skype already" and one can but
agree :-(

Many thanks
JJ
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Old July 28th 18, 03:01 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
John Jones[_2_]
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Posts: 27
Default skype 8

On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 14:56:03 +0100, "John Jones"
wrote in article -
september.org...

On Sat, 28 Jul 2018 11:38:45 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" G6JPG-255@
255soft.uk wrote in article ...

In message ,
John Jones writes:
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

See Paul's lengthier reply. But as well as the red X (red if you're
using the default Windows scheme), try right-clicking on the tray icon
and selecting Quit Skype (not sign out; though try that too).

For me, that killed it (rather too well - I couldn't start it up again
even if I wanted to, until the next reboot, but then there's something
odd about Skype on this particular machine - version 8 is the first one
that's connected at all on here, though 7 and before were quite happy on
my other W7 machine).


Great! I hadnt noticed that option. I haven't tried to restart skype
yet, but if it needs many tasks to make it work it may be that one has
to reboot. Seems a small price to pay.

One of Paul's quotes says "MS killed skype already" and one can but
agree :-(

Many thanks
JJ


In case MS lawyers are listening, I note that in this post there was one
little word missing. When I said one can but agree, I meant to say, one
can but NOT agree. I hope this makes everything clear.
JJ
 




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