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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Grimsby JR." <[email protected]> To: "'screen access software with skype'" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, Jun 27, 2010 7:11:34 Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Unwanted skype update > > > Ok maybe I shouldn't say this but I am going to anyway. Not updating your > skype is asking for trouble. First the new version of skype has fixed a > number of stability issues that means skype will not be crashing on you > regularly. Whole that leave your system open to attack are closed so this > means using the new version is safer. The new version includes a new audio > codec witch offers improved audio quality. It also uses less bandwidth. > So what your choice to not upgrade is doing to the rest of us is when you > with your old version of skype call us we have to use the old codec and we > use more bandwidth. Thus you decrease our audio quality and put more of a > load on our bandwidth and our computers. > Also no improvements is being made to skype 3.x so if you find a problem it > is not going to get fixed. > Skype 3.x will not work reliably on windows 7 32 and not at all on 64. So > if you ever plan on upgrading your operating system your going to have to > go to a lator version of skype. > Sorry people are not going to like me for saying this but what skype needs > to do at this point is not allow anything under skype 4.01 to connect to the > skype network. I mean my god this guy the other day called me using skype > 1.4 and the compatability issues we had interfaceing the two were > interesting to say the least. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hamid Aitouznag > Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 3:53 AM > To: screen access software with skype > Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Unwanted skype update > > Hi Steve, > > First of all, go to your skype options, under advanced settings and tab > untill you hear something related to updates and alerts... There are four > checkBoxes that you have to check in order to prevent skype updates. > However, even you do that, you might get skype trying to force the new > update on you whenever you sign in to skype or you start your computer, be > careful. I suggest that you start pressing alt+fbled whenever you sign into > skype quickly for about thirty seconds, if there is an update running, > you'll get a message asking you if you really want to cancel the update, tab > to ok and hit enter. That way, you are safe at least until you sign again to > your skype account. > > Hope that helps > > Hamid AITOUZNAG > > Skype: hamidgeni > > MSN: [email protected] > > Twitter: hamidgeni > > > On 25/06/2010 23:21, Steve Boynton wrote: > > Hi Listers.I have a friend who I talk on skype on a regular basis, the > problem is that we are both using skype 3.8.0154 which we are happy with > EXCEPT EVERY TIME MY FRIEND REBOOTS HIS SYSTEM AND LOGS INTO HIS SKYPE AN > AUTOMATIC UPDATE KICKS IN AND UPDATES HIM TO SKYPE 4.2 WHICH HE TRIES TO > PREVENT AS HE DOES NOT WANT IT TO NO AVAIL. > > CREATING THE SITUATION THAT MY FRIEND HAS TO UNINSTALL 4.2 AND REINSTALL > 3.8 WHICH HE KEEPS ON HIS DESKTOP SO TO HAVE IT READY FOR THE NEXT TIME. > > SO THE QUESTION IS, IS THERE A WAY OF STOPPING THIS UPDATE AS BOTH OF US > HAVE TRIED TO FIND A WAY BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS. > > > > REGARDS STEVE. > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for > > the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access > > tutorials and other goodies go to > > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > > > > > > To contact the list owner send a message to > > mailto:[email protected] > > > > to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this > link. > > http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ > > > > and for a searchable archives page go here. > > http://bit.ly/64Y48 > > > > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Skypeenglish mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials > and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > > > To contact the list owner send a message to > mailto:[email protected] > > to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this > link. > http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ > > and for a searchable archives page go here. > http://bit.ly/64Y48 > > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > [email protected] > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com > > > Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the > latest version of skype go to > http://www.dlee.org/skype > To access tutorials and other goodies go to > http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html > > > To contact the list owner send a message to > mailto:[email protected] > > to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this > link. > http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ > > and for a searchable archives page go here. > http://bit.ly/64Y48 > > thanks and have a wonderful day. > > > _______________________________________________ > Skypeenglish mailing list > [email protected] > http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html To contact the list owner send a message to mailto:[email protected] to download a tool to automate the installation of skypewatch go to this link. http://www.hrvojekatic.tk/ and for a searchable archives page go here. http://bit.ly/64Y48 thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list [email protected] http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com
