Hi, I can't seem to download Skype on my new laptop which has Vistas OS. Can anyone enlighten me? Many thanks

Go to http://www.skype.com/intl/en-gb/dow... VISTA IS NOT SUPPORTED...............

A quick google shows tons of people running Skype on Vista perfectly fine. I don't use Skype though, so I don't have any suggestions on how to correct it. You may want to explain what happens when you try to install or run it. TECH-NO-LOGICAL ROMANCE! http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs12.html

on one machine i couldn't get skype to install at all (error: not a valid Win32 application). on my laptop however, it would install but couldn't get the sound to work, problem rectified by reverting to an OLDER ac'97 driver (mind you this only works for the ordinary headset, NOT for a usb sound devives, most of these wouldn't work at all with Vista), sound still crappy compared to XP or Linux. next the firewall was blocking incoming calls so it has to be configured manually. bottom line: vista is just not ready. the easiest way around: setup a VirtualBox hosting XP or Linux and use skype from there. Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

Or Skype isn't ready for Vista... TECH-NO-LOGICAL ROMANCE! http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs12.html

FYI: Skype is way older than Vista and by now one of the most popular means of VoIP communications and instant messaging. Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'

FYI, many programs are not coded the way they should have been, and consequently don't work correctly simply by moving to a newer OS. You can't assume that the change should come on the Vista side for Skype to work; it may very well be a problem in Skype's code. And blaming Vista is often flat out inaccurate. Case in point... "on one machine i couldn't get skype to install at all (error: not a valid Win32 application). on my laptop however, it would install but couldn't get the sound to work, problem rectified by reverting to an OLDER ac'97 driver" You logically have admitted the first machine, there's something different about it from others, which doesn't point to Vista necessarily. In fact, since Vista is on both machines, and both machines exhibit different behaviors, it lends more to the fact that Vista isn't the culprit in either one. The other points to an issue with your AC97 sound drivers, which is absolutely not the fault of Vista. It's a fault with your driver manufacturer that could just as easily happen in XP, or 2000, etc. And once again, I googled to see if Vista and Skype work together, and there are a whole lot of people able to run it fine, save some people who needed to change their firewall config, but that is the burden of running firewalls. You can't single out Vista for that. I'm sure config changes would be necessary for other firewalls like Zonealarm, too. TECH-NO-LOGICAL ROMANCE! http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs12.html