Skype fails to launch on8.1

[anon(5349218)]

Hi all,

I installed the windows 8.1 update on my girlfriends laptop last night and it seemed to go well....but as I was giving her a quick tour I discovered a problem. When I click the Skype tile I can't get past the loading screen with the spinning circle of dots. After maybe a second on that screen I'm sent right back to the start screen.

If I swipe in from the left the Skype loading screen will come back...and then exit back to the start screen again.

Its like its stuck on the loading screen.....anybody else experience this or have a solution?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Abhinav Singh Chouhan]

I also have same issue and I have restore my pc it solves the problem

 

[theefman]

Make sure you are all up to date app and system wise. Skype works fine on my Atom tab so far, hopefully its just an update away from working for you.

 

[anon(5349218)]

After I noticed the problem I hit the windows store which had about 16 app updates. Installed all of them. I restarted but the Skype problem remained. I checked for system updates through the PC settings as well as the control panel. There were five more updates. Four installed successfully but for whatever reason one failed....it was for my hp printer so I wasn't really all that concerned. Anyway, restarted again but the Skype problem is still there.....

 

[xboxonthego3]

Have you tried uninstalling Skype and reinstalling it?

 

[anon(5349218)]

That was actually the first thing I did. Tap and hold the tile and then pressed uninstall at the bottom of the start screen. Would it have made a difference if I'd uninstalled through the control panel?

 

[azcruz]

My Skype is working well on my Surface RT (8.1)

 

[anon(5349218)]

...ya...that doesn't help me haha...but thanks for sharing!

 

[xboxonthego3]

Hmm not sure if it does make a difference. But it's worth a try.

 

[anon(5349218)]

Went on the Skype support website and it looks like many other people are having the sane issue and the Skype team was able to replicate the issue on their end. They'll have to issue some sort of update.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions nonetheless!