I am asked to input the password each time I start Skype. How do I get Skype to "remember" my password?

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There is absolutely no reason for which Skype should require Administrator-level access to store the password for an individual user who is executing skype.exe as him or her self. Furthermore, I just launched Skype as an Administrator, logged in, exited, and tried again and indeed I am still asked for my password. At no time did a "Remember Me" checkbox appear as an option. And, ultimately, I am unwilling to accept this as a "solution" to the conspicuously absent "Remember Me" checkbox on the login screen in modern Skype versions. Microsoft needs to make this feature available and functional out-of-the-box; no completely unnecessary privilege escalations.
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AS of Skype 7.17.0.105, this solution does seem to work. I just tried it. Even though there is no checkbox to "Remember Me", "Remember Password", "Keep me signed-in", etc. upon logging-in, the default behavior seems to be to keep the user signed-in. Unfortunately, I tried one of the other solutions recommended here first (launching Skype as Administrator), so I'm not sure which action fixed it. I'll report back if I'm able to make a reliable determination at any point in the future. Thanks for this!
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MS removed the option at logon page, but you still able to set it once you login (Duhh), if this doesn't work because the Windows logon user isn't administrator, choose >> Run As Admin << from the SkePE icon in Programs. (it doesn't show as option when I tried from short-cut on desktop, Windows 7 Pro).
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