I hate that Home Screen which pops up on every Skype start. I really do…
So I created a small Tray Icon app which looks for this Window and closes it immediately.

As usual, there is some Win32 API needed to do this. Here’s the Code which searches and closes the Window:

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string strClassName, string strWindowName);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, UInt32 Msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);

public const Int32 WM_SYSCOMMAND = 0x0112;
public const Int32 SC_CLOSE = 0xF060;

public static void Close()
{
	IntPtr hWnd = FindWindow("THomeForm", "Skype Home");
	if (hWnd.ToInt32() > 0)
	{
		SendMessage(hWnd, WM_SYSCOMMAND, new IntPtr(SC_CLOSE), IntPtr.Zero);
	}
}

Here’s the programm: SkypeHomeCloser_1.0