Disabling SkypeBrowserHost

https://www.reddit.com/r/skype/comments/6a2pmz/howto_disabling_skypebrowserhost/

[How-To] Disabling SkypeBrowserHost

Noticed that there's a process called SkypeBrowserHost.exe running, taking up a lot more CPU resources than it should?

You're not the only one, and the program does virtually nothing and can be safely disabled. Despite what's listed about deleting or renaming the file in the link above, that is no longer an option as Skype will fail to launch correctly.

Here's a workaround that I found.

• Close Skype if it is already running
• Create and open a text file with Notepad on your desktop (or anywhere else)
• Leave it's content blank, then go to Save As, change Save as type to All files (*.*) and then save it as SkypeBrowserHost.exe.
• Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Browser, delete the pre-exising SkypeBrowserHost.exe and move in the one you just created. This will serve as a dummy executable to trick Skype.
• The next time you restart or relog your computer, Skype will start without issues and without the "real" SkypeBrowserHost.exe resource-hog running (check for yourself in the Task Manager).