I cannot get skype to work again.

[jim.mar]

Several months ago I was using skype to chat with friends quitre successfully, then suddenly one day, when  I was talking on skype and fooling around clicking on facebook, my skype bombed out.  I have never got it to work again.   Whenever I try I get messages telling me that skype installer is running but it never completes the installation.   My friend can call me and I hear the ring but i cannot respond.   

I have uninstalled skype programs and reinstalled them, I have replaced Adobe flashplayer ( someone told me to try that)  all to no avail.   I'm stumped.   

I am running windows 7, and ie-9.

Does anyone have any idea what is wrong??   

[patio]

Run Revo uninstaller to remove the remnants of skype and re-install...

[jim.mar]

Patio:  Evidently I have used REVO before as it will not work now unless I purchase it.   It doesn't even bother to say how much it costs.   

[patio]

Don't know what to tell you then...

[Zylstra]

First, thank you for using one of "Top 50 favorite words that just aren't used enough", "avail".
I have tried to spread news of word, avail, but yet to no avail have I been successful.
(That's not a joke, I really do love the word...)

I was wanting to know, after you uninstalled Skype, did you go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype and delete the entire contents of that folder?
And after, did you delete the contents of C:\Users\Your Username\AppData\Roaming\Skype ?

Occasionally (actually, all the time) uninstallers will fail to remove previous settings/configuration files. An installer may look for these same files upon installation to restore old settings, if yours were corrupt it may have caused problems during reinstallation.

I just looked up on Skype's website, this advise follows what they recommend:
https://support.skype.com/en-us/faq/FA10634/how-can-i-completely-uninstall-and-then-reinstall-skype?frompage=search&q=can't+reinstall&fromSearchFirstPage=false
They go a step further to check for old entries in the registry. You can read their details on how to do this. Or... since this is a support forum, I could tell you:

Windows 7:
Click Start, type regedit. Right click regedit.exe and select "Run as Administrator".
XP:
Click Start, click Run. Type regedit.exe, press enter.

When in Regedit:
Click the Edit menu button and "Find". Enter "Skype" in the search box.
Select the search results (Skype.com says "there can be up to 50".) Right click, delete.

[jim.mar]

PATIO: OK thanks for trying.   If I wasn't so cheap maybe I could do better.   I get really gunshy of some of the promotional Crp that goes around.  When I ran REVO I was a little hesitant about doing everything it suggested, especially if it involved the registry, I believe I was trying to get rid of WebSmartPrint at the time.    Meanwhile I think I will explore what ZYLSTRA recommends.

ZYLSTRA:  Thanks for the response.  I am going to look into that.   I will let you know if I have any success.