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How to stop Skype from auto starting in Windows 10 at boot-up.–PC Pitstop<\/i><\/p>\n

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Stop Skype AutoStart in Windows 10<\/h4>\n

By Dave Taylor<\/p>\n

<\/strong>The Question: I just updated to Windows 10 and it\u2019s going well, except that Skype now wants to start up every time I boot the system, which is really annoying. How do I stop Skype from launching on system start?
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Dave’s Answer: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re on a Windows system or a Macintosh, there\u2019s little more frustrating than the parade of apps that seem to start up every time you boot your computer. Worse, many of them are hidden behind-the-scenes, little \u201chelper apps\u201d that enable certain functions, listen for incoming queries, etc. For some, it\u2019s almost impossible to figure out what they do and some of those might well be malware of some sort of another. It stinks!<\/p>\n

Even benign programs like Skype, a very helpful video chat application, can exhibit the same sort of behaviors, starting up even if you don\u2019t have an account and sitting on the Taskbar on your new Windows 10 system even if you never want to use the program. Any one program likely doesn\u2019t have that much impact on your performance, but when you get 4, 5 or more starting up automatically, that\u2019s going to have an impact on how your computer works.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s just focus on your specific complaint, however. Skype automatically starting up on Microsoft Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Start up your system and here\u2019s what\u2019ll be staring at you: Article Continued Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to stop Skype from auto starting in Windows 10 at boot-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":51737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[799],"tags":[4721],"class_list":["post-51735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-dave-taylor","tag-windows-10"],"yoast_head":"\nStop Skype AutoStart in Windows 10<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stop Skype AutoStart in Windows 10 - 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