


When creating a new account, the password isn't entered twice for verification, only once.If it doesn't exist, it won't take a password, and tells you about it. When logging in, the username is checked separately, before entering a password.It's worth noting that MS makes the following mistakes or odd choices while handling Skype accounts: Testing a new account now, that nobody knows about.


The accounts are only used on PCs and a couple of cell phones - installed by me, with the password I assigned. I can't find anything helpful anywhere else. I'm not violating the terms and conditions. Passwords are long and randomly generated, so nothing has been hacked as far as I can tell. I'm using MS's recommended practice of using regular, free Skype (we only have 10 accounts), but it has been a disaster. This will open your profile page at anyone else know what causes this? About 10 times now, different accounts have been locked and needed to be unlocked using a phone number and an activation code. Here is how Sunqan circumvented this problem.įrom your Skype for Desktop client select your profile and click the Manage link. I scoured the Skype community forums. Luckily, I found this great solution from community contributor Sunqan. If I did recreate my account, then I had the challenge of potentially losing my business phone number. If Skype would not let me change my primary email address, then I now had a security problem should anyone else pick up that email address. On the one hand, my old email was going away. Support informed me that a Skype number could not be transferred between accounts. The challenge with that option is that I would lose my Skype number (which was also on my business cards). I was told that the only option was to delete and recreate my Skype account. Eventually, I was told that because it was linked to my Microsoft account I could not change my primary email address. I spent an hour going round in circles with Skype Live Chat support.
