Introduction The purpose of this tip is to show you how to find the default Skype's account name. The Problem I needed to code a function that extracts data from the default Skype account on a given computer. To do so, I first needed to locate the default account name. I found a simple way of doing so. The Solution The Skype default account’s name is stored in a file named “shared.xml”. This file is stored inC:\users\username\AppData\Roaming\Skype\. First, we need to find thi