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Top Five Skype Tips: Page 3 of 5

You want Skype to be a tool to enhance communications with others, not something that will annoy you throughout the day because you receive calls when you don't want to, or get callsfrom people to whom you don't want to talk. You can solve the problem by using Skype's Privacy settings and a Mood message that will help tell your contacts or potential contacts how to reach you and when.

Setting your 'Status' will tell your contacts of your availability. Find it under the 'File' menu and the 'Change Online Status' option or from your task bar by right-clicking on your Skype icon, as you see from the following screen shot and options.

By setting your status, your contacts will have a better idea of what your online status is. Add to that the setting of your Privacy options under the 'Tools' menu under 'Options' and then the 'Privacy' settings. Here you want to make sure you set your privacy settings so that you are not bothered by strangers, unless you want to be. I do want to be contacted by anyone for support and video call testing. If you want to limit who may contact you, adjust these settings. If you do not want to be contacted by anyone other than the contacts you have added to your list, this is where you do it.