For the last two years, since the major November 2018 update, Skype has worked rather flawlessly on my Win 7 Pro (32-bit, Service Pack 1). I used it for occassional conversations with friends, it updated itself regularly, but truth be told, I didn’t need to use it that much in the last two years.
That has changed in the last two weeks or so. I now need Skype for more regular contact. Personal and work reasons. I am still on Windows 7. I felt there’d be no major issue with Skype this week.
As if on purpose, when I checked up on Skype this Monday, it started off with about a second’s delay, the tray icon at first greyish, but it went green quickly. Then the window opened up and everything seemed to be loading normally enough. There were the standard warning notes of Skype being unusable for emergency calls, etc., and the little spiral was rotating under the logo. But unlike usually, when it loads after 5 or so seconds, max, it kept going. A minute into the process, I realised it’s stuck. It’s trying to connect, but isn’t connecting. I checked the core temperatures. They were at a higher temperature for a longer time, the same higher temperatature they always have when loading for those few seconds.
Ergo, my Skype technically works, but it gets stuck while connecting. I cannot access my profile, anything. So, what do you think happened ? I had this theory that the latest automatic update of Skype no longer counts with Win 7 and therefore, my version won’t run. But I also find it hard to believe. It seems it’s just stuck. I read other people reporting issues like this over the years, both back in the Skype 7 (Skype Classic) days, and the post-2018 Skype 8 era. So, how are things actually ?
Thanks in advance for any advice, friends.
