Making Skype Portable

This is not my idea but it does work perfectly!

1 - Purchase generic USB stick. I use a 8GB but I think you can get away with as little as 128MB
2 - Make a folder on the USB stick called /skype
3 - Copy the Skype.exe from a PC install in the USB stick's /skype folder
4 - Create a new text file on the USB stick /skype folder called Skype.Bat
5 - Edit the file with notepad. What do you put in? you put in the following

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

now save and run the skype.bat file on your portable drive and you now have a portable version of skype.  The only downside is when you want to upgrade you need to update your installed version on your computer or redownload a new version and recopy the skype.exe file onto your portable drive.