Skype taking a long time to run on startup

A couple of months ago I experienced what seemed to be a glitch where Skype would take a few minutes to start up, You would double click the executable and literally wait there looking at the screen for up to 5 minutes before it decided to start. After google didn’t help me I realised there was a quick and dirty fix for this problem.

Open My Computer and locate:
“C:\Users\*YOUR USER ACCOUNT*\AppData\Roaming\”
(Appdata may appear non existant that is because it is a hidden folder. You can type that bit in the address bar to get there.)

Rename the “Skype” folder to “SkypeOld”.

Try launching Skype now, If it still takes some time, reinstall and it should now work normally.