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Actually, you can connect simultaneously to 2 Skype accounts.

Thanks. It works. Last time I looked into it, I found an article saying it wasn't possible.

In case others try this:

It worked for a few days, and then Skype shut itself down without warning to update itself, as Microsoft always know better than the user when to shut down software. "What we are doing with your computer is more important than what you are doing," is what they mean. After the update, it refused to sign in to the second account. After some searching, I found this:

https://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-archive/Secondary-Skype-stopped-working/td-p/4221470

One basically has to delete the entire configuration, profile photo and options and start from scratch. Then it works. Until they break it again with something else, I suppose. It's a typical Microsoft experience: "Yes, you may use this feature, but we have designed it in such a way that if you use it, it will mess up your settings so much that they become useless, and we'll make you do the entire configuration again from scratch because your time doesn't matter."

To get both accounts work together I do the following:
- Open primary account
- Open secondary account

Hope this helps
Gianni

So did I, but that was not enough to make it work, after it had messed up its own configuration files. I have explained what went wrong and how to fix it already.

OK. Skype has updated itself many times since I configured 2 accounts on my PC last year and I always get them work together without re-configuring them.
So I thought you should know the opening order of the accounts.

Cheers
Gianni

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