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Dec 11, 2013

My wife has a Toshiba Laptop with windows 8, upgraded to 8.1. About a month ago I set up Skype on her computer and all was working fine. Then 2 days ago she tells me it is not working. If you click on the tile, it tries to open, but after 3 second or so it goes back to the desktop. If I move the mouse in to the upper left corner, I can see the opening screen it gives you and I can click on it and it will come up again but only for a second or so and then goes back to the desktop. It never starts Skype. She has the same problem with Microsoft Solitaire Collection. I looked in Programs and Features to do a repair, but they are not listed.

Since there is no listing in Programs and Features, I don't even have the option to uninstall and then reinstall it.

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Partition 3 Reserved
Partition 4 Primary
Partition 5 Recovery
Partition 6 Recovery

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System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 8 Pro, 32 bit
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Processor Count: 2
RAM: 3318 Mb
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