Skype For Business

[auntie-bertie]

Skype for business has decided it wants to be on my computer. Cannot get rid of it. Icon on toolbar.... keep getting little popups that it is running. I have ticked all options to stop it running on startup. I have also totally uninstalled Skype.... and yet it is still there! Driving me mad! Any ideas to make it go away please!

[mccfluff]

How weird - i was getting annoyed with it myself this morning. I take it from what you have said that you have done into tools/options/personal and unticked auto start and start app in foreground?
That's worked ok for me.

[Buenchico]

See if this helps:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/uninstall-skype-for-business-28c4a036-7f22-406c-b7f4-87894cbaf902

[mccfluff]

if you are running office 365, you can't uninstall skype as its part of the package - Do you (did you) have it installed twice??

[auntie-bertie]

Thanks all - yes all boxes are unchecked McFluff but it is still there!!!

When I go to Control Panel/ Uninstall there is no mention of any Skype.
So I can only assume I have Office 365.... how can I find out if I have that??? I haven't bought anything and it is a pretty old laptop! In the list I can only see 'Office Professional Plus 2013'. TIA.

[mccfluff]

looks like it is part of office 2013 -i've just looked for mine, and i have found microsoft lync (skype) and microsoft office PP 2013 - is it under lync?

[auntie-bertie]

Hi, no - no mention of Lync. I only have Office PP 13
OneDrive
Silverlight
and 12 Visual C++
Thanks again

[mccfluff]

if its within your office package which it sounds like it is, you can't uninstall that without uninstalling the whole thing.