How To Access Skype Settings On Windows 8

How practice I modify my Skype settings?

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To admission your settings in Skype:

Select your contour picture.
Select Settings.
Choose from the post-obit settings to make your changes:
Note: You can access your Skype settings from any platform or device, but not all settings are available to change on every platform.
- Account & Profile
  - Control your profile picture visibility.
  - View and manage your account information.
- General
  - Change your language.
  - Cull your startup and close options. (Not available in Skype for Web or mobile)
  - View bachelor Skype Accessibility Keyboard Shortcuts. (Non bachelor in Skype for Web or mobile)
  - Customize your Translation settings by selecting your Spoken linguistic communication or Translation voice.
- Privacy
  - Turn Share location with Bing on or off. (Not available in Skype for Web)
  - Plow Translation permissions on or off.
  - Plow Simply allow Skype calls from contacts to ring on this device on or off.
  - Enable or disable Optional diagnostic data.
  - Select Privacy and Cookies to view the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
- Advent
  - Cull your color scheme, light, dark, or system setting modes, and choose from light or dark high contrast attainable modes.
  - Evidence the profile picture of who sent the last message in your group chat with final message author avatar on grouping chat.
  - Enable compact list manner and evidence user and conversation avatars.
    Note: Enabling compact list fashion will disable terminal bulletin writer avatar on group chat.
  - Enable carve up view mode.
- Audio & Video (Desktop and Spider web just)
  - Choose your photographic camera and adapt the settings.
  - Choose your background issue.
  - Choose your microphone and accommodate the input levels.
  - Adjust your Noise cancellation settings.
  - Choose your speakers and suit the output levels.
  - Make a exam call.
- Calling
  - Prepare up caller ID, call forwarding, and voicemail.
  - Plow on Telephone call subtitles and other call settings.
  - Reduce data usage - Never, On cellular networks, Always. (Mobile merely)
  - Access advanced calling settings. (Desktop just)
- Messaging
  - Turn read receipts on or off, change how emoticons appear, change your text size, and other IM settings.
  - Turn web link previews on or off.
  - Turn on or off the ability to paste copied messages as quotes, rather than every bit plainly text.
  - Customize file auto-download settings.
- Notifications
  - Increase, reduce, or eliminate what events Skype alerts you to.
  - Manage Practice Non Disturb functions.
  - Manage email notifications.
- Contacts
  - Sync contacts. (Not available in Skype for Windows, Web, or Linux)
  - Manage your blocked contacts.
  - Manage your privacy settings for contacts.
- Aid & Feedback
  - Check your current Skype version.
  - Find links to help content and check current Skype Status.
  - Provide feedback and view boosted data.

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