Cleaning up the JB thread to here.
I replied and will now just leave the above warning on JB
I went through that, and it did what it said on the tin, except starting Skype took me straight to the new one which is unaffected.
What I'm feeling is there's a new breed of Skype which has taken over - and is more embedded into the OS.
It does run, and it does have many of my phone numbers, but it's like stepping into a 777 cockpit and finding there's only ten knobs to twiddle.
I dare say there's a way of forming groups of contacts - well there is - but the groups are not sub-categories of phone numbers, they're lumped together for reasons I'm not clear about just yet.
I've no doubt I'll be working on this all night. I have another PC in the other room though not sure if I'd loaded skype on it.
What I don't know is if I have a virgin copy of an uninstalled download. As mentioned, the exe file I tried just put me to the new server's product .
Okay, so I went through ORAC's procedure and it may have helped, but I don't know. It must have cleared certain files out of the equation.
Anyway, I pulled an old exe installation file off the laptop and tried to run that. Again it got intercepted and I was offered a new download. No option left but to try it, though I was assuming this new piece of crapola would be the end product. However, to my astonishment, I got a running copy in the old style.
The version is 7.35.0.101
Now, I don't know how or why the disruptive (useless) one appeared.
I'd be interested to know if anyone else gets hit with this offering.