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Tim Fisher has 30 years professional technology support experience.

He writes troubleshooting content and is the General Manager of Lifewire.

By default, Skype opens automatically each time your computer starts and you log in to your user account.

This happens so that you get instant notifications when someone sends you a message or calls you.

When you disable Skype on startup, you have to manually open it the first time you want to use it after starting your computer.

Once its open, it remains open like normaland messages and calls can come inuntil you sign out or close it down.

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Skype for Windows 10 and for Windows 8 can be configured to stop starting automatically with Windows.

However, the steps are different depending on how you installed the program.

However, you can log out of the program to close it down and prevent all notifications.

Select your profile image (its located in the upper-left corner).

You might also be asked whether to remember your account and app settings on this device.

Normally, when you leave Skype open and youre logged in, SkypeApp.exe is running in Task Manager.

When you close the app without logging out, it remains running so that you can receive notifications.

However, when you log out of Skype in Windows 10, that process closes down, too, so that youre no longer notified about messages and calls.

If you want to completely close down Skype after logging out, look closely at the notification area on the Windows taskbar.

If you see Skype running there even though you exited, right-click the icon and choose Close Skype.

You can prevent this from happening in the future by editing an option in the General area of the programs settings.

Select the three-dotted menu (its located next to your name on the main page).

Toggle Automatically start Skype to the off position (the button will turn grey).

There are a couple of ways to disable autorun for Skype on a Mac.

The other way to prevent Skype from opening automatically in macOS is to remove it from the list of startup items in System Preferences.