Nothing worked for me until I "restored defaults" on my Anti-virus stuff - McAfee.
For some reason it had banned Skype.
Since discovering this I find I have to do it every couple of weeks, and haven't found anyway to make McAfee take permanent heed.
Another machine using Titanium Micro - or something like that - never has a problem.
Communicating with Mr.Skype is an exercise in frustration, too. With peristance one can get into some sort of txt.chat system, whereby you keep 'talking' on the computer keyboard, but don't delay in sending back answers or they assume you have lost interest and close the dialogue, then you have to start all over again with another operator - who knows little about what you have just wasted an hour over. Hate it, pity Skype is so good when it works properly, or I'd give it the old Heave Ho.
Last edited by ExSp33db1rd; 26th January 2013 at 23:41.