How to use Skype to call from my computer to another computer

Thank you very much for responding.

First of all, I apologize because I didn't read the article. I thought the link was for a tutorial video that would show me what to do. It, however, didn't tell me what I needed to know and I thought that was all there was to it. I screwed up there.

However, after reading the article, I am still confused and still don't understand how to set up a video call.

I set up a new contact who has Skype but Skype gave me no options, no steps to follow to set up contacting that person via the computer for a video call. The only two options it gave me were "Number" (and it tells me you can't make a video call that way) or "search". I tried searching by name and that was hellishly difficult. I would have had to contact an awful lot of people with that same name all over the world in order to find out who was who.

The article says to click on that contact in order figure out who it is. Does Skype use that person's phone number to figure that out and the only reason I can't make that call is because he's not currently on the internet? If that person is, however, currently online with Skype will it, in effect, ring his computer when I click on an appropriate icon?

Or do I have to, in effect, contact them in order to tell them I will be contacting them? (This last sentence probably sounds sarcastic. I do not mean it that way.)

TIA,

RS

I'm not sure what else I can add.

Did you read the complete article?

Does your PC have a working microphone and webcam?

Do you have skype installed?

If so. Run skype, login with your skype or Microsoft id and basically follow what it says.

If that's no help please be more specific and detail what you have done and where you get stuck.

Hello,

Thank you for the response. I watched the video but it didn't explain how to do it. I still have no idea how to set up an account so that I can make a video call from computer to computer.

TIA,

RS

See if this helps - https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA3681/how-do-i-make-free-voice-and-video-calls-on-skype-for-windows-desktop