Ага, десятка) тут проблема в том, что как только нажимаешь кнопку "настроить" на долю секунды появляется окошко настройки и сразу же исчезает))

Вроде все остальные рекомендации уже перепробовал

Мне кажется что dws что-то снесла... А вот что именно, понять не могу

Если есть точка восстановления, то откатитесь, если работает то применяйте dws не всё сразу, а по очередно. Тем самым узнаете ответ на свой вопрос

It has been a nice time in this chat guys, but I no longer use DWS as the latest version breaks Skype and unlike old versions I can't seem to figure out how to manually un-break it heh.

So I no longer use DWS, but I always  did appreciate the program and so I do want to pay my respects to the devs and hope you keep at it as it is a useful thing (unless you *need* Skype). Also a good sense of humor here and general information on stuff.

Anyways, I might stick around a bit longer but I will probably be leaving it soon.

about Skype: to repair it, you need to remove one line from the /etc/hosts (look for "live" and you'll see a long line in the list)

You always can use web version

fun fact: web version also won't work because of that damned line in hosts file

I have tried at machine of my mom where DWS was ran

(she ran Win7, now I have installed Win8.1 to her machine, not Win10)

Lol
Then fuck skype :D

Also, Skype dropped Windows 7 support some year ago

THIS!

You sir are a godsend, fuck how did I miss that before...

remove from C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file the "client-s.gateway.messenger.live.com" line, and skype will work

Anyways, in old versions of DWS I don't think it added that. As it is the newest one that seems to kill it heh

Is skype works now?

(after removal of this line client-s.gateway.messenger.live.com from hosts)

If yes, I'll apply a quick fix to DWS Win7881