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Telephoning Exam Papers

While I'm away I installed Skype so that I can phone home cheap. 1.2 pence a minute sounds like a good deal to me. Of course, today when you install applications you often get more than you asked for.

I've just gone on to our departmental Sharepoint pages to look at some past exam papers. All the files are indexed under course codes, which in our department means that we have links that start with numbers like 08101. A Skype browser plugin (which I didn't even know I had) converted all these into into buttons I can press to call each exam as a phone number, which is not terribly useful.....

Update on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 05:37PM by

Rob

You can get rid of the problem by going to "Tools->Manage Add-Ins" within Internet Explorer and disabling the Skype plugin. Or you can just remove Skype entirely, like I have just done.

Posted on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 08:37AM by

Rob in Life |

2 Comments

Reader Comments (2)

That happened to me too, Took me a while to understand what on earth it was doing, I haven't tried ringing any yet though, :)

November 8, 2007 |

Tom Hulton-Harrop

I never actually have Skype running unless I need to use it and yet I still get those button conversions happening on the sharepoint. Good times, eh?

November 8, 2007 |

Ryan Dalzell

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