Why did they ruin Skype

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sat, 3 Dec 2016 18:33:34
+0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

In message , micky
writes:
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I should have thought of this but alas, neither it nor the two of them
did anything (except send a coded message to MS that I'm a
trouble-maker. This sort of thing is why someone called me a week ago
to say that my Windows license had been suspended.).

Did he have an Asian accent, and ask you to run such-and-such a tool so
he could take control of your machine to help you "fix" it (-:?

No accent! Other than American. It was, a recorded message which I in
turn recorded on my answering machine so a) I didn't hear all of it, b)
I'm going to let the two machines sort it out. My answering machine
has more business sense than I do.

micky on Sat, 03 Dec 2016 15:59:31 -0500
typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sat, 3 Dec 2016 18:33:34
+0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote:

In message , micky
writes:
[]
I should have thought of this but alas, neither it nor the two of them
did anything (except send a coded message to MS that I'm a
trouble-maker. This sort of thing is why someone called me a week ago
to say that my Windows license had been suspended.).

Did he have an Asian accent, and ask you to run such-and-such a tool so
he could take control of your machine to help you "fix" it (-:?

No accent! Other than American. It was, a recorded message which I in
turn recorded on my answering machine so a) I didn't hear all of it, b)
I'm going to let the two machines sort it out. My answering machine
has more business sense than I do.

"Have your machine call my machine, we'll do lunch.".
--
pyotr filipivich
Next month's Panel: Graft - Boon or blessing?

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sat, 3 Dec 2016 12:44:24
-0500, Arnie Goetchius wrote:

micky wrote:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Sun, 27 Nov 2016 08:38:22
-0500, Arnie Goetchius wrote:

Brian Gregory wrote:
On 25/11/2016 07:32, micky wrote:
Rant number 75.

For some reason I looked at Skype on win10. They call it Skype Preview
and it comes preloaded, but apparently it's not a preview of better
things to come, it's the only Skype you can get.

But they don't tell you this so I had to google skype and when that
didn't help I googled skype win10 and you'd think that would do it
but I still had to hunt before I found that Skype Preview was the only
Skype I could get.

Who says?

I've seem windows 10 PCs running Skype 7.something just fine as far as I
could see. It looked just like the Skype I run on My Windows 7 laptop.

Perhaps I could unintall Skype Preview, but it's not listed in Programs
and Features.

So, perhaps I could install a different version over it. Other posters
wrote about that but IIRC, it wasn't certain to work.

snip

Same here. No problems. I orioginally installed Skype under Win 7 and
then did the free upgrade to Win 10 and it works the same as under Win
7. My version is 7.30.64.105 which, according to Skype Help, is the
latest version.

That's probably because they call what I have Skype Preview, although
even though it's "new" it's version 10. something.

Anyhow that must be the difference. My computer was also upgraded from
7 but it probably didn't have Skype at the time. OR Skype Preview
wan't part of the origina 10 install, but it came later. I wouldn't be
surprised if it will come to you too. Maybe you can turn off automatic
updates for Skype. Although other than losing the ability to call in
for a mike and speaker test, it's not so bad now that I manage to find
Light Mode. And I was wrong about Echo/Sound Test Service not working
in XP. Maybe I clicked wrong because a touchpad instead of plugging in
a mouse but it worked the next time I tried it on XP. And it works in
win10 too -- it's in the list of numbers you have called --

But there is still a substantial problem with Skype Preview. Skype in
XP has iirc the ability to test and set the level of the microphone
without calling the Test Service. This is much faster and easier than
calling the Test Service. and I've looked all over Preview one more time
and it's not there. So they didnt' totally ruin it but they weakened
it.

How about uninstalling Skype Preview as shown he

https://www.perfectcloud.org/fix-it/...in-windows-10/

Wow. Who would've thunk it? Thanks.

and then installing full Skype as shown he

https://www.skype.com/en/download-sk...-for-computer/