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LAS14

(14,712 posts) Wed Mar 13, 2024, 12:37 PM Mar 2024

How do I get rid of the (*** Skype icon????

A Skype icon has appeared in my task bar, on the left, by the windows icon and search magnifying glass. Right mouse shows "Pin to taskbar." When I click it, it flips to "Unpin from taskbar," but nothing changes. It's still there.

Windows 10. Ancient Dell laptop.

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How do I get rid of the (*** Skype icon???? (Original Post) LAS14 Mar 2024 OP

Look for Skype in Programs / Sofware and uninstall it. . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2024 #1

Several things you can try canetoad Mar 2024 #2

Unpinning and re-starting seems to have done the trick. Thanks! nt LAS14 Mar 2024 #3

Bernardo de La Paz

(51,024 posts)

1. Look for Skype in Programs / Sofware and uninstall it. . . . .nt

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Wed Mar 13, 2024, 12:41 PM

Mar 2024

canetoad

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2. Several things you can try

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2024, 02:26 PM

Mar 2024

Unpin from taskbar then do a restart. This might work.

To uninstall, go to SETTINGS, then in the left column APPS, then INSTALLED APPS
Find SKYPE in the alphabetical list of all programs on your computer
Click the THREE DOTS and select uninstall from the drop down menu.

From memory I think Win 10 settings are similar to Win 11. If not get back to this group and hopefully someone using Win 10 can elaborate.

It seems that Skype has set itself to run at startup. If you don't want to uninstall it, but keep it on your machine without running continuously we can stop it from doing that. But try the above first and get back to us.

LAS14

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3. Unpinning and re-starting seems to have done the trick. Thanks! nt

Reply to canetoad (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 13, 2024, 02:57 PM

Mar 2024

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