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Uninstalling Skype for Business from Computer?
I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me
problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure what it does! Any insights really appreciated. Thanks Charlie |
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:49:02 +1200, Dave Doe wrote:
In article , , says... I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure what it does! Any insights really appreciated. Thanks Charlie You should have a Skype for Business Basic 2016 and Skype for Business Web App Plug-in, in your Programs and Features list. Uninstall 'em. Thanks, got you! |
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In article ,
, says... On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:49:02 +1200, Dave Doe wrote: In article , , says... I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure what it does! Any insights really appreciated. Thanks Charlie You should have a Skype for Business Basic 2016 and Skype for Business Web App Plug-in, in your Programs and Features list. Uninstall 'em. Thanks, got you! They may well come back, by themselves, when an Office 365 update comes out I guess it's sorta to do Skype; text and video etc, calls, inside your office - although it can work like standard Skype too and include contacts outside your organisation. -- Duncan. |
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Uninstalling Skype for Business from Computer?
In message , Paul
writes: wrote: I'm running Win7 and IE11 and the Skype for Business program is really giving me problems in IE11. What is the best and safest way to uninstall this program, if it can be uninstalled. I don't think I need it for anything! I'm not even sure what it does! Any insights really appreciated. Thanks Charlie Skype to Skype is a phone/video conference service. Skype to Skype calls are free. Skype to PSTN calls have a fee. The Skype network bridges to Bell, at the nearest point in the public switched telephone network. Normally, the PSTN charges for such connections. You can get a Skype subscription, and possibly pay in advance for "minutes". Which helps when you phone Grandma in Togo who has an old rotary phone. Talking to her while using the microphone in your webcam, say. Back when Skype was its own corporation, the Skype network was distributed. So the telephone traffic didn't necessarily all go through one piece of centralized equipment. Skype was also a marvel of cryptography. Since Microsoft purchased it for $6 billion, they have changed the architecture to be more centralized. It might not be using Supernodes any more. None of the previous paragraph matters, unless you like certain kinds of conspiracy theories. Skype the software, like many other things on the computer, wakes up once in a while and messes around. Even if you have no Skype number, and do not participate, you might still see it running. Skype was considered (by Microsoft) to be a replacement for Messenger??? And at some point, Skype was installed on your computer as an upgrade to Messenger. On newer OSes like Windows 10, you would expect Skype to be there by default. Although I don't recollect any attempts to alert me to the fact it was present. I guess I'm supposed to find it by accident. Paul I think all you've said refers to normal Skype; Skype for Business, at least on my 7 machine at work, appears under Office 2010, though I don't think it was originally (we had something called Lynx, though again I'm not sure if that's a standard part of O2010 or was just placed there by our IT build). We use it (and Lynx before it) like, as another has said, messenger: a way to send instant text messages to others on the corporate network (usually "are you going for a tea break?"). [It's also planned to turn on the voice aspects of it soon to replace our 'phones; I'm not relishing that prospect, since - although it'll be useful, since people'll be able to get me even when I've been moved away from my nominal extension, which I often am - we'll be completely out of contact when there's any network problem.] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If ever you see a man opening the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. - The Duke of Edinburgh |
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Uninstalling Skype for Business from Computer?
En el artículo , Paul in Houston TX
escribió: I won't allow IE11 on my machines How do you manage that? Microsoft installed it without asking even though I have Windows Update, the wuausrv and BITS services disabled. *******s. -- (\_/) (='.'=) systemd: the Linux version of Windows 10 (")_(") |
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Uninstalling Skype for Business from Computer?
Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , Paul in Houston TX escribió: I won't allow IE11 on my machines How do you manage that? Microsoft installed it without asking even though I have Windows Update, the wuausrv and BITS services disabled. *******s. MS makes an IE11 blocker. My employer uses this since IE11 is not compatible with our softwa https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...locker-toolkit |
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Uninstalling Skype for Business from Computer?
On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 08:39:51 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: I think all you've said refers to normal Skype; Skype for Business, at least on my 7 machine at work, appears under Office 2010, though I don't think it was originally (we had something called Lynx, though again I'm not sure if that's a standard part of O2010 or was just placed there by our IT build). I believe you're correct. Lync (not Lynx) wasn't distributed with and edition of Office 2010, as far as I know, but it was available as a separate download at the time. That version of Lync is hard to find now. In Office 2013 and 2016, it's included as another one of the many available components. In recent months, Lync was rebranded as Skype for Business, but it's essentially the same program, at least from the user perspective. -- Char Jackson |
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