Remove that ugly skype banner

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2014-04
  • La Moutarde

    How can I remove that ugly banner in Skype? It showed up in the latest version but I think it is pretty annoying.

    I know I can go back to the latest version but I would rather keep my software up to date (you know, viruses and malware and stuff) so I'm looking for something that can fix this problem in the current version of skype (and possibly newer ones)

    • Answers
  • jao

    Luckily, there is a way:

    1. Start Internet Explorer and click on the cog icon (or press ALT+X)
    2. Go to Internet Options > Security
    3. Click Restricted Sites and click on the Sites button
    4. Enter https://apps.skype.com/ in the textbox and click Add.
    5. Click Close and OK

    (see here)

  • Mickaël

    I am using the Linux Skype client and there is no ads at all on it, so I am not sure my advice would help you.

    You can use a network sniffer (like Wireshark) to see the IP the software is trying to load ads from. If it is always the same (it should first retrieve the list of ads, I guess), you can try to block it in your hosts file (by assigning 127.0.0.1 as a alias of this IP, so every request to get ads are redirected to your PC and then fail).

    But if Skype is retrieving the ads from the same server as it uses to connect yourself to the Skype services (for communicating with your contacts) it may just break everything...

  • user294732

    Put

    127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com
127.0.0.1 apps.skype.com

    in your HOSTS file. Done.


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  • Timo Geusch

    One of my machines here - the only Windows PC - has three different Windows installations on it:

    • Windows XP 32-bit, my current main installation
    • Windows 7 public beta 32-bit, mainly installed this to try out Windows 7. It's got the basic tools on it that I normally use, but it's a plain vanilla install
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    All of the above installs have the same settings for TCP/IP - same IPv4 network address, netmask, default gateway and DNS servers. There is a firewall between me and the big bad Internet, but it's set up to let pretty much everything through from my side and does not affect Skype operation on the two 32-bit installations.

    On both 32-bit installs, Skype can connect to the Internet fine and log me in without any issues. On 64-bit Win7, I am unable to log in and the error message I receive advises me to check my network connection. All three installs have the same version of Skype (latest Windows version), the Advanced->Connection settings are the same on all three also.

    I'm pretty much stumped at this point in time. The only idea I have is to uninstall, redownload and reinstall Skype on the 64-bit Win7.

    Has anybody here seen similar problems with running Skype on a 64-bit Windows 7 installation?

    UPDATE: I've uninstalled Skype, downloaded the installer again and reinstalled Skype. It now appears to be able to connect and log in.


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  • mike

    Skype has issues with windows 7 and the new installer should fix it.