Skype update failing?

[Meyfei]

grrr new update completely killed skype on me. x_x
http://puu.sh/3g63s.png

I log on- no contacts load. Servers down?
I log out- I cannot log back in... wha?

[Aeris]

You have to start Skype before loading PSO2 as for steam and for some other programs as well, look in task manager and kill the running one if you have that issue.

[Meyfei]

I did end task on skype, steam, pso2, and there is another skype running however it will NOT shut down even when i hit end task. x_X

/windows 8

[shagia]

I think Skype hangs in general?

Have you uninstalled skype yet? I know exactly what you're talking about, this was happening to me before I reinstalled my OS. (I had to switch to Win8 x64 sooner or later lol)

I'm not too sure how it occurred but I would just reboot your computer because I don't think you're going to have much luck ending the Skype process including if you tried ending the Process Tree and you would just get denied (this has happened countless times with me and Skype), once rebooted, don't start Skype or anything, uninstall Skype, and delete the registry files using regedit.exe while running as a admin. (ctrl+f skype) Ever since I got that problem, Skype would just constantly be on and off, logging in would work sometimes, and sometimes it wouldn't. I never thought of deleting the Registry files though...

[Meyfei]

http://go.teamviewer.com/v8/m10227465(old)
http://go.teamviewer.com/v8/m61301203(old)
http://go.teamviewer.com/v8/m77187151
http://go.teamviewer.com/v8/m33201395 click here, let it do it's thing and join my conference thing to view my screen in which i can show everything.


http://puu.sh/3ggcZ.png
http://puu.sh/3gfkw.png
http://puu.sh/3gfka.png

Changing status- nothing happens.

Everything worked 100% more than fine before this unnecessary update T_T

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[Aeris]

Have you even restarted PC to see if it fixes it?

[Meyfei]

its been fixed. Windows 8 wasn't updating it properly. I guess Skype updates through windows updater instead and such. Meh. Had to reformat.