I want to create a new Skype account and set Skype Name during registration process. Either I'm blind or stupid or this is not possible. When I click Create an account in Skype, I'm redirected in browser to page and when I enter my e-mail address and click on I agree - Continue -- on contrary to what or or many pages say -- I am not redirected to second page of Skype registration form, but to Create an account page at Microsoft where I can't set my Skype Name. When registration process is finished, I end up with automatically generated Skype Name, which consists of live:username, where username is a mailbox in an e-mail address, I used during the registration process. Changing it is imposible, I'm asked to create another account and then the whole story start over. An any point of registration process I was not asked for Skype Name. How to set Skype Name in newest Skype. RobH Do you have any reason to claim that this is Microsoft invention. Skype id sign up name Google at first. Actually every software having 100+ million users suffered and keeps suffering syndrome in which software vendor doesn't give much care to those users opinion and releases changes the way only they want. Even thorough Google searches on the topic turned up nothing of use on the topic. I managed to find a solution, even though no instances of Skype on any of my machines available to me would present me with a sign up screen which allowed me to choose a username so I had an idea to try sign up via the Skype app on my mobile device and miraculously it presented me with an option to choose a custom user name. Therefore this is at the time of writing a working way to sign up for Skype with a username of your choice. I'm accepting your skype id sign up, because it is better than mine actually the only working one currently however, I strongly suggest to re-edit it. Instead, focus entirely on the key information, that to solve this problem and actually pick a screenname in Skype one must register new account via mobile application only. If you're using Skype for Windows 7 or newer versions of Windows, you are forced to create account on Microsoft, not on Skype and use that account in Skype and thus you can't pick your own Skype Skype id sign up. You must use either auto-generated one or your e-mail address, used during registration. If you usethere is no option to enter Skype name on second page. In User name you have to enter an email address. But Skype help page shows the option of Skype name. You can try to download and install Skype and then create an account. We also use it to send you important information about Skype and any purchases you make. It must be between 6 and 32 characters, start with a letter and can contain only letters, numbers, full stops, commas, dashes and underscores. It must be between 6 and 20 characters, contain at least one letter and one number, and is case-sensitive. No, this answer is incorrect. It is not possible to do, what this page say or what you suggest, because clicking Create new account in installed Skype also opens web page, so skype id sign up as you say in your first sentence -- it is impossible to set Skype Name. I'm only voting up your answer, because you did a good work of researching, but for the reasons metioned above, I can't accept your answer. I made an email for my company like mycustom. If it is unique that will be picked as your username. I did something like connect. You could use words like me. I hope it helps someone with the same needs. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 on this site the. Would you like to answer one of these instead. Not the answer you're looking for. Browse other questions tagged or.
