The Ghost
Epic Member
tl;dr I have got Skype starting up on me, without being installed... Also performance decreases in Windows 7 since WX launch.
It was a normal day, me playing PC. I boot up my PC, get in a game, play 'till I'm bored, then I shut down.
Except this time something was different...
I boot, Windows 7 flag waves, yay, blue startup welcome scre- wait, nope, BLACK with only mouse cursor. This keeps up for a few seconds, say 25 seconds, and then hooray, blue startup welcome screen. I ignore it, only to see Skype on my taskbar, only about 0.2 seconds. Usually it wouldn't bother me, but it did. Why?
Because I don't have Skype installed...
I convince myself that it was something else, maybe...
I open a game, start playing like usual.
All of a sudden the PC alt-tabs out of the game, and I see that cheeky Skype icon in my taskbar again, for +-0.2 seconds again.
Then I knew I didn't see something else the first time.
I also checked my file system, no traces of Skype being installed...
With all this, starting when WX launched, my PC also got quite significantly slower, but only in Windows, though, not in games, but I should add that the games got a few lag spikes...
Don't tell me that it is just Windows getting slow like Windows always does, because it isn't. This literally started 29 July.
Anyway, if you can help/try to, feel free.
It was a normal day, me playing PC. I boot up my PC, get in a game, play 'till I'm bored, then I shut down.
Except this time something was different...
I boot, Windows 7 flag waves, yay, blue startup welcome scre- wait, nope, BLACK with only mouse cursor. This keeps up for a few seconds, say 25 seconds, and then hooray, blue startup welcome screen. I ignore it, only to see Skype on my taskbar, only about 0.2 seconds. Usually it wouldn't bother me, but it did. Why?
Because I don't have Skype installed...
I convince myself that it was something else, maybe...
I open a game, start playing like usual.
All of a sudden the PC alt-tabs out of the game, and I see that cheeky Skype icon in my taskbar again, for +-0.2 seconds again.
Then I knew I didn't see something else the first time.
I also checked my file system, no traces of Skype being installed...
With all this, starting when WX launched, my PC also got quite significantly slower, but only in Windows, though, not in games, but I should add that the games got a few lag spikes...
Don't tell me that it is just Windows getting slow like Windows always does, because it isn't. This literally started 29 July.
Anyway, if you can help/try to, feel free.