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A crazy misfeature of windows 8.1 is that the Skype user is tied to the Windows user account.

You want to use Skype on someone else's PC?

No problem, just create a new Windows user (and watch Windows crash twice in the process while the person you're supposed to call is waiting).

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Or you can just install Skype for Windows Desktop. Metro makes perfect sense when you consider a tablet formfactor like Surface, it just shouldn't be used for regular computers, which is where they screwed ujp.

Which is a bit confusing when the person reasonably thinks they already have "Skype", which is running already on their "Desktop" (computer).

Thanks, I didn't know that there were several versions.

I'll install it.

Metro and explorer are completely different worlds. There are even two configurations systems and I've yet to find how to reach the standard control panel without using search.

Win+X, P

or open Explorer at "Computer". There is a big "Open Control Panel" button in the ribbon (reachable via Alt+C, C).

That being said, search brings me exactly where I want, while the control panel is not my end goal, so I didn't have to open it in quite a while (both on Win 8 and Win 7).

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