How to turn off or disable Emoticons in Skype on Windows PC

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Skype of late, has become an indispensable tool for whatsoever PC user. The service helps you save money on text messaging and international calls. It tin can be easily installed on whatever Windows computer or smartphone and offers users essential IM and calling features. Since we spend then much time chatting on Skype, it'south nice to know more about its possibilities and specially its Emoticons.

Emoticons are symbols that express the mood of a person in the grade of conversation. These symbols raise your communication and brighten up the discussion by making chatting more than excited with animations. Skype is i service that uses emoticons largely. Information technology automatically keeps turning characters you blazon into trivial hearts, cups of java, and other forms that though announced as major attractions for readers, don't appeal to everyone. Y'all can turn off these effects on Skype directly if yous do not similar them.

The common Skype emoticons can be accessed by clicking on the smiley at the top of the compose message box, but there are tons more yous can use. To generate them, you simply have to type the corresponding discussion or symbol combination.

Nigh of us savour using emoticons, only there may be some Windows users, who may not take any apply for them and desire to disable them.

Disable Big Emoticons in Skype app

To disable Emojis or Big Emoticons in the Skype app on Windows 11/ten, practice the following:

Launch Skype app
Click open Skype Settings
Open the Messaging department
Plow the sith to Off against Large emoticons
Skype will not show large emoticons now.

TIP: You lot can use the Emoji Panel in Windows.

If you are using the classic Skype software, read on!

Disable Emoticons in Skype Desktop software

If you're a Skype user and have a dislike, especially for emoticons in your IMs, yous can disable them.

To exercise so, open your Skype business relationship, navigate to 'Tools' and from the left department of the computer screen chose 'IM Appearance' option.

Then, shift to the right-pane and select 'IM Appearance'. Now, In the right pane uncheck Show emoticons option and click Save.

Instead of finding the actual emoticons, you'll run into the text associated with the each emoticon. The emoticon text can be but every bit annoying if yous are in the form of a conversation nigh something important.

If the to a higher place method doesn't work for you so go to –

C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\

At present delete the folder SkypeEmoticons. In case you are not allowed to, open Task Manager and delete the task SE.exe and then delete the above-mentioned folder.

Promise this helps.

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