Can't sign in, can't quit, doesn't work.

Honestly, I am completely done with Skype. I have been using this application for over 2 years now and there is this one problem that continuously persists and appears on my laptop, as well as others.
When I log in, everything seems to be working fine and well until you actually try to use the application. I cannot change my status from online to away, offline or anything at all. I can still click buttons, open my settings, but nothing changes and calling/messaging others won't work either.
When I sign out and generally quit Skype, it continues running in my taskbar and will even say "this program cannot be stopped" when I try to force-quit it. Then, if I try to log in again, it will say that I am still logged in on this computer while I clearly am not. Only shutting down my laptop will quit the program.
I have tried deleting, reinstalling and nearly every method suggested but nothing changes.
I run Windows 8 and yes, even installed the latest update every single time in hopes that the problem would be solved. Nothing ever changed though.
Hopefully anyone has a solution for this, because I am about to quit Skype altogether.

Reboot your computer in Safe Mode and then try to reset all Skype settings.
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.
Next 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.
Reboot in normal mode and restart Skype.

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