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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Skype Windows App is not the Skype you get from the Skype web site. The issue happened in a built-in Windows 10/11 Windows Store App. This means the Application Cache for this built-in App is corrupted.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Unfortunately, you cannot uninstall and reinstall built-in Store Apps in Windows 10/11. You have to go into an Administrator Powershell window and copy/paste or type a very complex command string.Then another. It doesn't always work. The next step is a non-destructive reinstall of Windows if that method does not work.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">You may have luck with the built-in Windows Store App Troubleshooter, but not always.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Skype for Windows has been superseded by Teams for Windows 11. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">But if you have an upgraded Windows 10 to Windows 11 setup, Skype is still in there, and it still behaves as a built-in Windows 10/11 Store App.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I don't have time right now to post the details and links about resetting the Store Caches for built-in apps. I can respond more fully later today.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In the meantime, maybe someone else can fill in the URLs and specific instructions for cleaning up a corrupted Skype App in Windows 10/11.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak </div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, October 17, 2022 at 06:46:42 PM EDT, Ted Kochanski <tedpkphd@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="yiv8727636915"><div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>I recently fired-up Skype and got a strange error</div><div>so I uninstalled Skype</div><div>then downloaded from the Skype website a "new Skype" </div><div>it installed and when I launched it -- guess what the same Skype error</div><div><br></div><div>Anyone have this experience?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:Js236Wgku9NHupR0aLqy" yahoo_partid="1.2" alt="image.png" width="558" height="193"><br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyway -- I'm just hoping that this isn't the start of more Windows problems which I thought were behind me</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div></div>
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