Comments on: How to Disable the Updates in Skype?

By: Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o)

Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o) — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 16:15:35 +0000

Great. Glad I could help.

By: Anon536366363

Anon536366363 — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 04:39:07 +0000

Thanks so much Nikolay! I’m on Win7 and this saved my life, can’t believe they don’t address this as a bug. Luckily, your workaround exists.

By: Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o)

Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o) — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 08:24:26 +0000

By the way there seems to be some tricks to run old versions here: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-fix-the-error-about-outdated-version-of-skype-and-continue-to-use-older-versions/
I have not tested them and I will not be spending time on these stuff because I am kind of retiring from the Skype field and moving into some other stuff at the moment… But you can check it out if you want.

By: Julie Wolf Skype Coach

Julie Wolf Skype Coach — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 00:23:37 +0000

sad isnt it.

By: Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o)

Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o) — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 10:24:08 +0000

I have a feeling this time they are stopping all old ones for sure, but we will see :).
I also have a feeling that the era of Skype is coming to an end slowly, just like the same happened with icq and mirc. The huge changes Microsoft did recently are generally good, but poorly executed. But that is a different topic :).

By: Julie Wolf Skype Coach

Julie Wolf Skype Coach — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 01:41:27 +0000

there is still a point to this thread.

People with 6.14 and 6.16, and those with 3.8 or 4.2 (the later 2 tested still work in Win7), they are all getting these notices. so they will still ask me how to stop the update notice. So this is still a very useful article and comments too.

Thanks for being so good at responding Nikolay. PLease feel free to connect on skype (***removed by admin for security and spam reasons***)

By: Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o)

Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o) — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:51:33 +0000

@Julie
Hi. Yes, this is how I made the file.
But all these instructions were made before they stopped all old versions from working, so I guess there is no point of them now…

By: Julie Wolf Skype Coach

Julie Wolf Skype Coach — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:59:42 +0000

I tried creating a text file in the Temp folder, and made it Read only. Then renamed it SkypeSetup.exe, ignoring the warning message about changing the file name extension may make the file unstable. Do you think this will also work to stop the notices?

By: Julie Wolf Skype Coach

Julie Wolf Skype Coach — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:54:20 +0000

Thank you Nikolay. I will add all this to my Skype Old Version notes to stop updates. I came looking for new info and find yours NEW to me and my followers. I have noticed that removing Skype Update From Services (heres a video I made about it http://youtu.be/1HqWYr-c7Rc), did not completely remove the “Updates are ready” notices, nor has removing the Update Folder inside the Skype folder in Program Files.

Having last logged in to v3.8 (and yes! it still works, even after MS forced all old versions to sign our, called them outdated or retired, and forced us all to upgrade)… I DID find a skypesetup.exe in temp folder, just as you instructed above. And I have now deleted it.

Testing Skype v6.14, which usually does get the notice of new updates available, did not give me that notice. So I think it worked. Thanks!

I do see now that the SkypeSetup.exe is back in the Temp folder, since I ran my 6.14. So I will try your fake skypesetup file and read only tip.

Before I do though, do you mind if I ask how you created this fake.exe file?

By: Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o)

Nikolay (Admin of Chat4o) — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 05:40:18 +0000

Max, I did not completely understand what you did exactly, but I am glad it worked out ;)