HELLO & WELCOME

[Yosh]

Hey there everyone, does anybody know of ways to reduce the amount of resources Skype would drain? I'd love to use it, but it just slows everything else down on me. As a result, I very rarely use it, if ever.

[John Donovan]

I'm not really sure, and this might be bogus, but you could always try reducing Skype's priority from task manager on Windows 7. On Windows 8, I think you can't do that anymore, but I think you should be able to create a batch file which could do just that.

[Bonzer]

Well, Skype is a resource hungry application. It was developed by P2P network programmers and they made it disabling bandwidth a tough proposition for the application. It consumes a lot of memory and virtual memory as well.

You may try disabling Skype plugin manager to reclaim some memory space. Let's hope Skype improves its software.

[Yosh]

I'm not really sure, and this might be bogus, but you could always try reducing Skype's priority from task manager on Windows 7. On Windows 8, I think you can't do that anymore, but I think you should be able to create a batch file which could do just that.

I'll have to try this. Thank you for the tip!

[Yosh]

Well, Skype is a resource hungry application. It was developed by P2P network programmers and they made it disabling bandwidth a tough proposition for the application. It consumes a lot of memory and virtual memory as well.

You may try disabling Skype plugin manager to reclaim some memory space. Let's hope Skype improves its software.

I really hope they improve it. Thank you for the tip, I'll have to try it out too!