How to set up Skype on a laptop?

It happened, you installed it on your laptopprogram Skype and now you can contact your friends even on the other side of the planet. You turn on Skype, add friends and start calling everyone, but that's bad luck: nobody hears you and no one sees, or vice versa - they see you, but do not hear, etc. What's the matter? The program is new, downloaded according to all rules, but there is no connection with the outside world.

The problem here is simple - the lack of a correctmicrophone and video camera settings. The fact is that on a laptop often a video camera and microphone are already built into your device, and separate installation is not required. Here, then, there are "pitfalls." In order to fix this, you need to do the following, and you will understand how to configure skype on a laptop for free.

Step-by-step instruction. Setting up skype.

First, you need to open Skype and from the drop-down menu select the item "Tools".
In the "tools" we select the sub-item "settings" and "click" on it - before you open the window of the settings of Skype.
In this window on the left, you will see a menu of all the settings that you can change in the program. We select the item "sound settings" (it is the third one from the top).
Further in the fields "microphone" and "speaker" (theydisplayed in the main window) you need to select the names of the equipment that you have installed. If you do not know what equipment is installed, you need to open your desktop and right-click on the "My Computer" icon. In the menu that opens, select "Computer management". Before you open the control window. Important: if you see incomprehensible words there, or the first time you see this window, then strictly follow the further instructions, and do not change other settings so as not to break the wood in your laptop settings. So, in the opened window click on the item "Device Manager". It is displayed in the left column of the opened window. After clicking, a list opens, where you can see what equipment is installed on your computer. Find the appropriate audio and video devices. Most likely they are located in the item "Sound, video and gaming devices." If you do not have the "My Computer" icon on the desktop, go to the "Start" menu and there will be this shortcut, just right click on it and follow the instructions above how to configure Skype on your laptop.

Install the drivers.

So, you have done the above actions, andsound is still not heard, and the webcam does not work. Most likely, there was no name of your equipment in the drop-down menu. Now how to configure skype on a laptop? The thing is that you just do not have drivers installed - you need to install them. Check if there are any disks with software on your laptop. If they are available, then they are the drivers you need. Install them from the drive on your laptop. If there is no disk, or, for example, you have a netbook and a disk drive there, then check their availability on the hard disk - maybe the manufacturer wrote them down there. If they are not there either, or you purchased a netbook or laptop without an operating system, then the drivers must be downloaded from the Internet. You can download them from the official website of the manufacturer of your laptop, or from the unofficial resources that host these drivelas. But it's better to download from the official site, so as not to download any virus or spyware.