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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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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 JJ The beauty of articles like this, is how they get out of date quickly.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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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). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Quantity is no substitute for quality, but it's the only one we've got. |
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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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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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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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