

From the Settings menuĪnother way we have to do this is to do it from the Windows Settings menu. We can also do it using the button that appears in the lower right part of the window. We must locate the Skype entry in the list of programs, right-click on it and choose the option to disable. We can use the keyboard shortcut Control + Shift + Esc to open this task manager and, in the "Start" tab, find everything that is running when we start the PC. The first one is from the Task Manager of the operating system. Therefore, we can find it, and control it, from the Windows system startup options. Skype registers as one more program that runs at Windows startup. We will also be able to choose if we want Skype to start in the background automatically, so that its main window does not appear, or what we want to do when we close Skype, whether to close it completely or to keep it running in the background. Therefore, we will look at it in more detail later. Here we will not find a button as such to activate or deactivate this function, but we will have to go to the Windows Settings panel to do it. The first option will allow us to choose whether we want to automatically start Skype when logging in to Windows. Within it we will find several options within the category «Start and close» that will allow us to configure the behavior of the software.


In this window, we will select the «General» section. To do this, we will open the main Skype window, and using the keyboard shortcut Control + Comma, we will open the Settings window. Like most programs, Skype offers us the possibility to configure the program's background behavior from its own configuration. Regardless of the version that we have on our computer, the process that we must follow to remove it from the start of the operating system will always be the same.
