Topic: ICQ Problem :S (Read 3866 times)

Just plain old Punisher · « **Reply #20 on:** August 12, 2006, 07:26:50 pm »

How do you effectivly use something that is a total waste of time?

FCM_SFHQ_XC · « **Reply #21 on:** August 14, 2006, 04:55:12 pm »

OK, very odd.. I didnt do anything on the computer all weekend and now all the sudden it works just fine(I didnt change a thing!) :-/

stoneyface · « **Reply #22 on:** August 14, 2006, 05:12:40 pm »

i respectively suggest the program "gaim" it is an open source proggy that runs all the messagers at once without actually having to install said messegers. icq was bought out by aol a long time ago and it is evil all that aol crap dumped on your system without permisssion irks me to no end. i've been using gaim for a while now and it is now far superior to trillian. trillian actually requires you to install all the messengers will gaim does not. give it a try.

also if you are on dial-up, running that many firewalls is just silly. dial-up accounts aren't really targets but one good firewall will be betterr than 4 imho

FCM_SFHQ_XC · « **Reply #23 on:** August 15, 2006, 04:54:05 am »

Well I got it back working 100% and everything seems fine, for everyone who tried to help me, thanks a lot

Bonk · « **Reply #24 on:** August 16, 2006, 07:11:30 pm »

Welp, the following entries just made it into my hosts file:

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127.0.0.1 web.icq.com
127.0.0.1 status.icq.com

I've finally had enough of the usually broken ICQ status icons lagging my forums browsing. The google ads do not affect thread rendering times anywhere near as much as the icq crap.

FCM_SFHQ_XC · « **Reply #25 on:** August 17, 2006, 05:02:24 am »

Well I do know most of the ICQ extra stuff can be disabled in preferences so realy the only thing I have is the ICQ web advertisement in the bottom of my conversation windows..

KBF MalaK · « **Reply #26 on:** August 17, 2006, 06:41:23 am »

are you using the 'real' ICQ proggy, or one of it's clones like Miranda ??
I too am a long time user of ICQ and never had an issue but I suspect ICQ may be changing it's connections and/or formats as Miranda now requires a different script to get me back on the ICQ network. Try downloading the LATEST ICQ from their website and reinstall the mess.

FCM_SFHQ_XC · « **Reply #27 on:** August 17, 2006, 04:26:10 pm »

Quote from: KBF K MalaK on August 17, 2006, 06:41:23 am

are you using the 'real' ICQ proggy, or one of it's clones like Miranda ??
I too am a long time user of ICQ and never had an issue but I suspect ICQ may be changing it's connections and/or formats as Miranda now requires a different script to get me back on the ICQ network. Try downloading the LATEST ICQ from their website and reinstall the mess.

ICQ Lite 5.1, while much more annoying then ICQPro2003b, doesnt contain the AOL junk in it so I would recommend that..

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