Disable or completely uninstall Skype for Business from Windows 10

Skype helps you stay connected proactively with your peers. For this, it runs a number of services in the background and continues to run in the background even when it is closed with the help of the X button. This feature can sometimes become annoying for some and therefore they may want to disable or uninstall completely Skype for businesses of Windows 10. We have already seen how to uninstall the Skype application – now in this article we will check some working methods to uninstall Skype for businesses.

Uninstall Skype for Business completely

The following methods worked effectively to disable or completely uninstall Skype for Business from Windows 10:

1. Disable via Skype settings
2. Uninstall with the help of the registry editor.
3. Silent uninstallation with the help of a custom configuration.
4. Use a third-party uninstall program.

1) disable it via Skype settings

You can disable Skye for Business and prevent it from starting by opening Settings> Tools> Options.

Then select Personal and uncheck Automatically start the application when I connect to Windows and start the application in the foreground option.

2) Using the registry editor

Open Skype for Business. Make sure to disconnect from the app.

Select the button that says Delete my login information.

This will clear all the user profile cache from the Skype for Business account and disable the automatic login when the application is opened.

Close Skype for businesses.

uninstall Skype for businesses like any other software on your computer. Open Control Panel and select Skype for Business> Uninstall.

Now begins the main part. You must open the registry editor.

Then open Edit> Search.

Search & #39;Skype"And be sure to select all the entries found in the registry editor and press the Wipe off button.

To select Yes or D & #39; agreement for any prompt you get.

Restart your computer to completely remove Skype for Business from your computer.

3) Silent uninstallation with the help of a custom configuration

Right-click the Skype icon on the taskbar and select Exit.

uninstall Skype for businesses like any other application on your computer.

Get the Office Deployment Tool.

For the configuration.xml file, replace the current configuration with the following:

Run the command line of the Windows command prompt with administrator-level rights and run the following command:

cd c:ODT2016

This will be the path where you saved the Office Deployment Tool directory.

To download the installation files, run this command:

setup.exe /download configuration.xml

Wait for the files to download. It all depends on your internet connection.

And finally, to install these downloaded installation files, run the following command:

setup.exe /configure configuration.xml

All authorized applications in the Microsoft Office suite will now be installed, but Skype for businesses.

3) Use a third party uninstall program

You can also use any third party uninstallation software as they are able to delete any residual files after the uninstallation of the application.

Good luck!