Have you even encountered such an error? What did you do,
or rather, what do you think you had done to deserve such a response from your
beloved voice and chat application? It is one of those irritating issues you
are likely to face during your lifelong relationship with Skype.
I had my first horror moment after close to 8 cool years of
using Skype. Something had gone wrong, though I couldn’t figure out what
exactly it was. I went on a wild goose chase, feeding my google search engine,
with all sorts of questions and inquiries.
By the time I identified the source of my nightmare, I had
been to hell and back. From several futile re-installations to a million password
resets and my eventual search for Skype’s web version (which, by the way, does exist
at: https://web.skype.com ), I had seen it
all.
It was all in vain – well, almost – until one useful clue showed up on page 5 of my search results. I rarely go beyond the second page, but something nudged me to go on. And there it was. Something to do with my internet explorer browser.
Despite several updates and add-ons and versions (probably
11, now), internet explorer has never been the kind of browser to tickle my
fancy. So I thought I could do without it. I had binned it, and with it went my
Skype functionality.
Several times, I tried to launch internet explorer with
little success. The darned browser simply couldn’t show up (I was feeling too lazy
to go through a fresh installation). Eventually I had no choice but reinstall
IE, and voila, my Skype was back!
I have since faced a couple of related issues, and both had
similar solutions. This, of course, may not be a one-size-fits-all solution,
but most errors of that particular description have something to do with IE.
Sometimes all one needs to do is to update their IE to the latest version.
Dan A.
