The following are the instruction to install Skype on your flash memory stick. I just tried it, it works great. This way you can take the flash stick to an internet café or on the Leyton’s computer – you will also need to bring your headphones, but otherwise it is a pretty compact way of doing it. Let me know if it works.
How to Run Skype from a USB Flash Memory Drive
Skype is a portable application, which means it can be run from a USB flash drive, on any PC (even if Skype is not installed on the PC). This is useful when you are traveling and want to use Skype on a publicly available computer, for example, at a hotel, Internet cafe, library, etc.
How to set up Skype to run from a USB flash drive:
- Download Skype and install it on your computer. (or, if you have already installed Skype on your computer, continue to step 2)
- Find skype.exe file where it was installed. (Normally found at C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\skype.exe)
- On your USB drive create a folder and name it "Skype" and copy skype.exe into this folder
- Create another folder in this Skype folder on the USB drive and name it "Data"
- Create a new file in Notepad and name it "skype.bat"
- Open the "skype.bat" file and add the following text:
skype.exe /datapath:"Data" /removable
That's all! Now you are ready to run Skype from your USB drive. Just plug it into any PC and click on the skype.bat file. This will run Skype from your USB drive.
When you're done, exit the Skype program, unplug the USB flash drive and go. Your call history, account settings and other personal Skype settings stay on your USB flash drive, not on the computer. This is a portable, "clean" and secure way to run Skype on any PC, without installing Skype.
Note: The first time you run Skype from your USB drive you will need to log into Skype with your ID and password. On subsequent uses, you will be logged in automatically when you run "skype.bat.
You can easily run Skype from a regular USB flash drive as explained above, or for extra convenience, we offer the USB Skype Memory Phone. This is a USB phone with a 128 MB flash drive built in. It comes with Skype pre-installed and ready to run, check out the USB-P1M Flash Phone for details.
Ok, that’s it once again.
Love you, miss you, and take care down there.
Dad
4 comments:
Thanks for your notes about installing 'skype' in my pendrive (flashdrive). However, there may be something wrong that I did, coz it does not 'start' the application by itself all the way (it is looping around and does not get connected). I followed the steps you gave one by one, line by line, space by space. Still... Please advice ASAP and thanks.
thanks worked like a charm with skype 3,8
Hi,
I recently only saw your suggestion. i need to do this in my office where there is no permission to install anything. Is this traceable, is what my question is??
Seeing these kind of posts reminds me of just how technology truly is something we cannot live without in this day and age, and I think it is safe to say that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as memory gets cheaper, the possibility of downloading our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's one of the things I really wish I could experience in my lifetime.
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