All contacts offline and skype home unavailable?

Today i got on my computer to play some games with my friend, so i started skype up. It opened and i saw he was offline, which was strange because he leaves his skype on online. So i opened the contacts tab, and every single contact was offline, even Echo sound test was offline. I tried reinstalling skype and it didnt work. I tried once again. didn't work . Im going to backup my skype folder and delete anything skype related after my uninstall. Then im going to reinstall it, and hopefully that will fix it. I am open to any answers, and I hope i'm not the only one getting this error.
Thanks in advance for anyone who tries to help
~Tekkit
P.s.
Dell Latitude D630 XFR
Windows 7 Ultimate
8 gigabytes of ram
Intel Centrino
64 bit OS
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ruwim wrote:
Try first to reset all Skype settings.
Quit Skype or use Windows Task Manager to kill any Skype.exe process. Go to Windows Start and in the Search/Run box type %appdata% and then press Enter or click the OK button. The Windows File Explorer will pop up. There locate a folder named “Skype”. Rename this folder to something different, e.g. Skype_old.
If you are on one of the latest Skype versions (>6.3), then do also this:
Go to Windows Start and in the Search/Run box type %temp%\skype and then press Enter or click the OK button. Delete the DbTemp folder.
Restart Skype.
N.B. If needed, you will still be able to re-establish your call and chat history. All data is still saved in the Skype_old folder.
Thanks for your help! It worked and now my skype is correctly identifying who is online. I appreciate your help!
~Tekkit

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