ICQ forced an update on you?
 

russian bastards forced me to upgrade - any way to re-install ICQ 6.x?

http://www.oldversion.com/ICQ.html not sure if they have it setup to force 'upgrades' on the old - old versions or not.

Yepp, I was forced over to the new 7.2 version tonight.

Be careful during upgrade / installation. Be sure to select custom install, and mark off anything which has to do with ICQ search and other extra shit. It's probably designed to try to take over your browser and stuff, install another worthless toolbar which you don't need.

Also, after upgrade is done, try to read message history from someone, it will then come back and say "empty" but it will also be a link in the bottom left corner where to click to atomatically import message history from ICQ 6.5.

I was forced to upgrade. The program does not let users load it unless users have the latest version.

I got so tired with ICQ so I just switched to Trillian - no fucking ads, nobody forces you to update and stuff

use miranda-im instead.

2003b still here and still going strong.

I lost all my contacts and connections with trillian...I loved it until that point...

I was forced to upgrade this morning. Fuckers hijacked my fucking firefox search settings.

Bastards.

You all need to move over to skype!

anyone tried http://www.pidgin.im ?

it forced me too, and since then my system seemed unstable, and it set itself to autorun on startup

I ran an uninstaller to stop it from running and now I only open icq when I really need to, I think it is time to stop using icq

That's what I use. Nice and clean without all the crap.
I began using it after ICQ installed its search on my PC despite doing a custom install.

cool I'm downloading it right now...

hmm so it's not like trillian where you have a single sign-on?

if they're forcing an update, there's likely a reason.

I Miss messages like crazy, perhaps due to some using older versions? I don't know but it's possible for sure.

and no skype eh

ICQ tried a couple days ago and I was able to stop it by killing it and just restarting...
This afternoon it forced it and killing it did not work so now I have the new crop. Importing history crashed 3 times so I just put it in to a data base so I can search it as needed.

mostly I use email and skype

I was forced to upgrade too.

At first ICQ 7.2 looked atrocious. But then i tweaked the looks a bit, downloaded the banner removal tool and now it's actually pretty decent.

i did the custom installation, UNCHECKED the icq toolbar and whatever else, and what do you know - fucking ICQ toolbar/search in Firefox. uninstalled the toolbar and it's still there - maybe i have to reboot.

:mad:

I use Adium on my Mac. The only thing that sucks is that I dont get offline messages, but fucking ICQ sucks balls on a Mac, they stopped at version 2 or something.

I have been afraid to upgrade for quite a while now. ICQ 2001b is working great for me still.

I use LINUX Pidgin. (Multi messenger like trillian.) My ICQ went down on my LINUX last night but loaded OK on the old windows in the other room. Now I know why it went down — they had to fix the Pidgin server to log into ICQ's servers. I thought that was it — this thread confirms ICQ server was the issue.

I use Adium as well for ICQ and it has been pretty solid for the most part. I tried the Mac version of the Trillian alpha but went back to Adium.

Broke my Miranda.

I am using icq for mac but it crashes everytime i copy and paste something into a message window :(

i like icq...miranda is better though

skype is cool for the chat

during installation click custom and uncheck all the misc junk. its the same as with all previous versions.
edit: never mind my comment, didn't notice you said you did custom install. never had a prob with it personally


btw to get back msg history from previous version in icq go to menu > contacts > message history & click "import history" link in lower left side of the window

When asked if I wanted to install the new version, I clicked 'No', then clicked 'Sign In' again and it worked. No need to install the update.

i did the same thing until was forced to upgrade couple weeks ago. it wouldn't sign in otherwise.

I see, maybe it only lets you click 'No' a set number of times..

MSN has done the same in the past.

:2 cents: