

You can also rearrange your Speed dial list by clicking and dragging names into your preferred order.

To delete someone from Speed dial, right-click on their name and click Delete.

Select the person and the type of call (video or voice-only) you want to add to Speed dial. To add someone to your Speed dial list, click Speed dial and click the + button to open up your Skype contact list. The Phone app has two screens: History and Speed dial. Both voice and video calls open Skype video. To make a video call, click Skype video Video call. This opens a separate Phonebook window, which is searchable and organized alphabetically.įind the person you want to call, click their name, and click Skype video Call to make a voice-only call. To call someone on your contact list, click the Phonebook icon at the bottom of the screen. You cannot add Skype contacts from within the Phone app, and there's no direct link to the Skype video app. To add someone to your Skype contact list, you'll need to open up the Skype video app and click Add contacts. You can only call people on your Skype contact list, which is different from the people listed in your address book (the People app). Instead, the Phone app - which is basically just a call log with a customizable speed dial menu - is a companion app that feeds directly into the Skype video app. Unfortunately though those are not sorted by contact but by length.Windows 10's new Phone app is deceptive, because it's not really a fully-functional app that lets you make voice calls from your device. In there you find the databases chatmsg256.dbb, chatmsg512.dbb, chatmsg1024.dbb, chatmsg2048.dbb, chatmsg4096.dbb and chatmsg8192.dbb. The full path would be C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Skype\skype username.

Skype saves all chats with contacts in a Skype folder in Documents & Settings. There is no easy way to clear the chat history but there is one. It leaves the user clueless however on how to remove the chat history with one contact only and the official answer from Skype is that it is not possible to delete the chat history of one contact. Skype offers a way to delete the complete chat history of every contact and to change the time period in which the chat history is kept. This could be a privacy related issue if someone else has access to your computer. Did you know that the default setting for the Skype Chat History is forever ? That means, every chat with every contact is still visible using the View Chat History right-click menu option.
