The procedure has had no impact of any of their settings.How do I turn off Skype for business? You can disable Skype for Business so that it doesn't always start with Windows by opening the Task Manager from the Home tab, selecting an application, and clicking the Disable button. Restart your computer to test the resultįor me this worked like a charm and Skype for Business was finally gone from my system.Īlso worth noting is that all of the remaining Office applications still work just fine.Remove the folder where you extracted the files.Confirm to close 'Skype for Business' when asked.( Note that It may take a while for this command to complete) At the command prompt, type: ( assuming that you extracted the files to "C:\ODT2016").Open a 'Command Prompt window' as administrator.Save the changes and close your text editor.
"You will get two files, setup.exe and configuration.xml" Select a local folder (for example C:\ODT2016) and extract the files to that folder.
Download the Office 2016 Deployment Tool from this link.The following steps will guide you through the process of removing Skype for Business The Procedure that finally did work for me!įrustrated, I searched and found a Microsoft article at " that finally allowed me to remove Skype for Business from my system. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Runīut neither of these locations contained any Skype entries HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and/or There is no entry in the startup tab for Skype for Business! So I figured to go old school into the registry to delete the entries manually from: Find and disable the Skype for Business entry (or so I thought).Open Windows Task Manager (press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC).Total waste of time! :(Ĥ) Disable Skype for Business from windows startup list in the Windows Task manager So Skype for Business was part of the package again. The setup does not even ask which components should be installed (like previous versions of Office did). Reinstall Office without Skype for Business.
There was no option to remove any individual component.ģ) Completely remove Microsoft Office 2016 Pro plus including Skype for Business I was expecting to get a window showing me all office applications with an option to add/remove individual applications (such as 'Skype for Business') But instead, I was presented with a dialogue box titled "How would you like to repair your Office programs" with only two options to choose from:
Uncheck Automatically start the app when I log on to Windows and Start the app in the foreground.Īfter rebooting my system it seemed that these setting had no effect as Skype for Business would still appear at the start of windows.Choose the tools (small gear) icon and then Tools > Options.Things I tried prior to the solution that worked for me!ġ) Modify startup setting in the Skype for Business application options