I had installed Skype on Windows 7 and it was working fine for a while. Recently, I downloaded some other utility for Windows, and it required the MS VC runtime redistributable, which I also installed and ran. It looks like that has caused Skype to stop working. Now when I run Skype, it does not even show me the Login option under the Skype menu.
Earlier when it was working, when I clicked the "Skype" menu shown in the image above, it used to drop down the "Login" or "Connect" menu option, and which, when clicked, would pop up a dialog in which I could login to Skype. Now that Skype menu only shows the "Close" menu option when I click it. Hence no way at all to login.
I uninstalled and reinstalled Skype a couple of times via Control Panel, but there is no change.
Thanks for any advice.