Before the New Year, the developers decided to “delight” the fans of classic Skype and started the process of ending support for Skype 7. This means that users must install Skype 8 in order to use Skype for Windows.

Recently, some Windows 10 users have been faced with the fact that classic Skype (Skype 7) does not work on this OS, when other versions of Skype (for example, the version from the store or for the browser) it’s working without problems. More precisely, if the user is authorized and does not log out from Skype, the network status is constantly spinning and the Skype home is not available.

Today I want to teach you how to fix another Windows error “Failed to load function! KERNEL32.dll GetLogicalProcessorInformation”, also known as “FATAL ERROR! Failed to get proc address for GetLogicalProcessorInformation (KERNEL32.dll)”. This error occurs when you start different applications (including Skype older than version 6.6):

Sometimes when you start Skype for Windows, a critical error 0xc000007b can occur, which causes the program to shut down forcibly. As you probably guessed, in this guide I will help you to eliminate this error, but first of all, I want to note that this error affects not only Skype, but also many other programs. Therefore, we can safely say that we will learn how to fix 0xc000007b error when launching various applications and games in the Windows operating system.

Some users of Skype for Windows complain that Skype Home is not available when starting the program. The error looks something like this:

When you try to open some files (most often downloaded from the Internet), Windows security system blocks this action. For example, if you try to start the downloaded installer and install Skype for Windows, the following warning appears:

In recent days, I have noticed a lot of questions about why Skype does not receive incoming calls, and how to fix this issue. Most of all, this problem affects the operating systems Windows XP and Vista, but newer versions of the Windows family have not been “disregarded” either.

The problem looks something like this: the user “A” calls the user “B”, but he does not receive any incoming call notification. After a while, the call is dropped, and the caller (user “A”) sees that the user “B” does not answer, and receives the following notification:
It turns out that Skype does not receive calls, even if both users are online, and the user “B” will not know that he was called until he is told by the caller or receives a message “Missed calls from “B” (although the notification comes late, sometimes even the next day). It should also be noted that most often the user “B” can call the user “A” without any problems, and other functions (including instant messages and file transfer) work properly.

When running the latest versions of Skype for Windows, Windows XP users are faced with a critical error, due to which the program forcibly stops its work.

Due to the fact that many users of Windows XP and Windows Vista cannot connect to Skype, I decided to write a small guide on how to solve this problem. It consists in the fact that when you start Skype, you see a crying emoticon:

Sometimes, when using Skype for Windows, some users are shown a pop-up window with a security alert about the presence of errors in the security certificate.

Today, our blog reader, dear Dmitry Pankov, told me about a bug in Skype and how to fix it. The problem is that some users even if they can send messages, they cannot receive them. Sometimes notifications of incoming calls are not displayed, but notifications of missed calls are received. Besides, even if they are online, the interlocutors do not see them as their online status is displayed as “Offline”.

Sometimes users of Skype for Windows cannot make video calls because other applications are using the webcam in the background. The situation is aggravated by the fact that most often it is unknown which programs prevent Skype from connecting to the webcam.

Sometimes, after downloading Skype for Windows, when you try to run the installer, the following critical error occurs:

Some users, who use Skype for Windows, at the start of the program, encounter an error that the date and time are incorrect, when you must put the correct date and time for the authorization in Skype.

Since not all users can fix the error The api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll is missing from your computer, I wrote a small script that automatically fixes the error: it downloads the api-ms-win.zip archive and unpacks all the necessary libraries into the Skype installation folder.

Some versions of Skype for Windows (more precisely, older ones) are no longer supported, and when you attempt to authorize to them, the following error occurs:

If the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 package is not installed on the computer or system libraries are corrupted/missing, starting Skype 7.33.0.104 for Windows will raise the following error:
Alternatively, instead of the above error may occur the following one:

The procedure entry point ucrtbase.terminate could not be located in the dynamic link library api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll

As previously announced, since March 1, 2017, it is discontinued support for older versions of Skype for Windows and Mac OS X. Now, when you try to log in to an outdated version, the following error occurs:

Along with cookie files, an error that JavaScript is not supported can puzzle every user who does not know that Skype for Windows uses the functions of Internet Explorer to display the login form.

At starting the latest versions of Skype for Windows (more precisely, 7.32.0.103 and newer) an error may occur that a wrong version of Skype is installed, and it’s recommended (while sometimes it’s required) to download and install the latest version from the official site.

Since the new version 7.33.0.104 adds a new requirement, Skype for Windows won’t start on a system without Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable package because the program won’t be able to find the required DLL libraries. In such cases, the following error will occur: