Skype not responding on startup

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Yesterday, just as I was shutting down my PC, I saw there were some updates available, so I updated / restarted and then shut down the PC.

This morning, when I tried to start Skype, it gave me a 'not responding' prompt. 

I tried uninstalling version 6.14 that I was on and installing 6.16 or whichever the newer one is. Didn't work. I then googled it, and found that a possible fix would be uninstalling / reinstalling IE. Did it, still didn't work. 

 

Here's the event log 

 

 Skype.exe 

   6.16.0.105 

   536b4342 

   KERNELBASE.dll 

   6.3.9600.16656 

   53181390 

   8000ffff 

   00011e45 

   25c 

   01cf704e54a64d72 

   C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe 

   C:\Windows\system32\KERNELBASE.dll 

   9adc8b3d-dc41-11e3-976b-001d7d949890

 

What am I missing?