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How to Stop Skype from Starting Automatically at Login on Mac?Over the last decade, video calling has reached a point where it is now an essential part of our life. It also has significant importance in business communication. It is especially true in 2020 as a lot of people are working from home, and video calling has become a crucial element for getting the job done.Suppose you used Skype a lot, but now you do not need it as much as before. You might have notices Skype launching itself and running in the background. Maybe you accidentally enabled the app to launch itself automatically on start-up or did not close it before restarting.Below you will find out how to disable Skype auto-start and more.Video on How to Stop Skype from Starting Automatically at Login on Mac?Table of Contents:IntroductionMethod 1. How to Turn Off Skype Automatic Start From the DockMethod 2. How to Turn Off Skype Auto Start From SettingsMethod 3. How to Turn Off Skype Reopening After RestartHow to Delay Skype Auto Start Using Delay Start AppVideo on How to Use Split View And How to Fix It When Not Working on Mac?How to Turn Off Skype Auto-Start From the DockYou can turn off Skype starting automatically after login from the Dock.You can disable Skype to auto-start from Dock by following the steps below:1. Launch Skype from Launchpad, Finder, or Spotlight.2. Locate the Skype icon in the Dock.3. Right-click on the Skype icon.4. Hover over "Options". You will see a second menu appear.5. Next to "Open at Login", you will see a tick.6. Click on the "Open at Login" option to remove the tick and disable Skype automatic start.Now, the next time you log in to your user, Skype should not start automatically and bother you anymore.If, for some reason, you need Skype to start automatically when you log in again, follow the steps below:1. Launch Skype from Launchpad, Finder, or Spotlight.2. Locate the Skype icon in the Dock.3. Right-click on the Skype icon.4. Hover over "Options". You will see a second menu appear.5. Click on the "Open at Login"
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I currently have Skype 7.30.0.105 installed on Windows 10, but the option to launch at Windows startup in Skype settings is unchecked and it does not autostart normally, neither opening a window nor showing up in the system tray.The annoying thing is that each time it updates itself, it launches anyway. Most annoying is that it isn't even polite enough to start in the background, minimized or in the system tray, no, it opens a foreground window that grabs the input focus, no matter what I'm doing currently. This is not acceptable, especially as it mostly happens when I'm playing some real-time multiplayer online games in full screen mode. Those few seconds between Skype minimizing my game, loading its own window and me bing able to close it again and switch back often make me lose the game. Not to mention that this behaviour is very rude in any circumstance anyway.So is there any way I can stop Skype from launching automatically after automatic updates? Alternatively, I'm also okay with stopping it from updating automatically unless the application was started manually by me.
