I have experienced difficulties in installing the new ver. 2.5

It says that skype.exe is not a valid Win32 program. Then I am forced to quit the intallation process. Can anybody help me?

Hi claushave,

please download the newest version of skype at www.skype.com . Please make also a full disk cleanup and do to install skype as an administrator. Close all application during installation of skype.

More informations about your systems are helpful for us too.

Sounds like the file is corrupted.
Go to control panel>internet options and delete cookies and temp. files.

Download the file again, but save it to a different folder. Try running it and report back.

Download/Installation problems

Please reboot and purge the following folders

C:Temp or
C:Tmp if available
C:WindowsTemp
C:WindowsPrefetch delete SKYPE.EXE-XXXXXXXX.pf file only. The XXXXXXXXX would actually be various numbers and letters
Your Download Folder (desktop?)
at least delete manually downloaded Skype-setup-file
Recycle bin
reboot
download latest Skype setup file again
but now download to a different location than last time. Do not use default location
Install Skype to a different location than last time with a different name
Do NOT use default name, use "Skype2" for example.
Do NOT RUN from the web site always download the file to your PC then install it from there.

The problem solved - thank you very much.

Regards'
claushave

welcome and enjoy

How did you solve it :?: