Arduino will not connect

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Good morning,

My Arduino Uno will not connect to the computer through port COM3. It keeps saying access is denied. I have reset the board, re-installed the software, rebooted the Arduino and the computer. The lights are on for the green power and the yellow flashing light when I plug in the USB. I am trying to load blink and it will not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I use windows 10.

Thanks Mark

System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : COM3
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 115200
avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "\.\COM3": Access is denied.

Arduino: 1.6.8 (Windows 10), Board: "Arduino/Genuino Uno"

avrdude: Version 6.0.1, compiled on Apr 15 2015 at 19:59:58
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\tools\avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : COM3
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 115200
avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "\.\COM3": Access is denied.

avrdude done. Thank you.

Problem uploading to board. See http://www.arduino.cc/en/Guide/Troubleshooting#upload for suggestions.

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Morning,

The COM 3 port was being used by Skype and that is why I was getting the access denied. I shut down Skype and it worked fine.