Skype Complete Freeze with Vista

  

Skype

Recently I encountered a problem with my machine running Vista 64bit Ultimate and freezing completely upon running skype. This happens with nearly all version of Skype (I say nearly, because I haven’t had time to try every single version of Skype, but at least for the latest 3.8 and 4.0 beta 2 at the time of posting).

This has baffled me for around about 3 days, until I suddenly remembered a setting which I modifed while trying to install an unsigned driver.

 

 

The command was:

C:\>bcdedit -debug [on/off]

When the debug is ON, Skype will freeze and will NOT function properly. The logical solution is to turn this setting off and reboot afterwards before launching Skype:

C:\>bcdedit -debug off

You can check (to make sure) whether the debug setting is on or off by just typing:

C:\>bcdedit

This will present you with a list of settings and their values, the debug setting should be listed last.

FYI this is my system specifications:

• HP Pavilliion dv9700
• Vista Ultimate 64bit SP1
• 4GB Ram (2x2gb)
• GeForce 8600GS 

 

Hope this helps soneone out there, I certainly wished someone posted about this when I had the problem, that would save me a whole 3 days!! 🙂