I deleted Skype from all machines after Microsoft bought them. G
> On Dec 15, 2015, at 8:46 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have, probably only one person I talk to or chat with on Skype, but it's > installed on my Laptop and Desktop, and used to be automatically started when > I started both machines. Not anymore. The last Skype "improvement" of my > experience, now causes any graphics oriented software to almost choke while > Skype is running. Geeze, first it required me to upgrade to a later version > of Internet Explorer, (a program I never use on my desktop), then, next time > I opened DXO Optics Pro the response of any control was so laggy I at first > thought that the program had frozen. Photoshop was noticeably slower too, > even a lightweight program like Irfanview was effected. Tried to open the > Task manager* and the tasks and programs didn't have enough video memory to > populate the lists when it finally appeared, some controls didn't initialize. > > I know I don't have the most advanced video card, or the most video memory, > but sheesh, the graphical interface on Skype is pretty underwhelming, what > the fuck, (excuse my language, but I'm a bit frustrated here), is Skype > doing with all those resources. > > *Which really told me nothing, when I finally got it to work since it's > mostly silent on video usage. Had to run a video analyzer. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
