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Through the magic of the Internet, this post, other people’s hard work, and l33t ninja haxor skills I bring you a portable skype install (for Windows). You could do this yourself pretty easily by following these directions.

• Download Skype
• Install Skype to a folder any folder, I prefer a folder called “skype” on the Desktop.
• Create a new text file labeled skype.bat
• Paste the following in to the text file and save it:
  @echo off
  set APPDATA=%~dp0Application Data
  if not exist “%~dp0Application Data” mkdir “%~dp0Application Data”
  set USERPROFILE=%~dp0
  set ALLUSERSPROFILE=%~dp0
  echo Starting Skype…
  start %~dp0skype.exe
• put skype.bat in the same folder as your skype install
• Double click on the bat file to run Skype

Even easier; download and unzip SkypePortable on a USB drive.

I couldn’t resist linking to Make’s “skyppod”