The letter i is flashing on the ICQ icon - we are solving the problem. How to use the ICQ program The letter i is blinking on the ICQ icon meaning

The idea of ​​ICQ is as simple as an orange. When you install the program (which, by the way, is free), you are assigned a unique identification number (UIN) - something like a phone number that you can share with your friends and acquaintances.

While you are working without connecting to the Internet, ICQ is quietly dozing in the far corner of your computer's memory. But as soon as you enter the Network, ICQ wakes up and sends a signal to its server - “Object number such and such has entered the network.” And at the same moment, the server forwards this signal to your friends (if, of course, they have their own copy of ICQ and have added your number to a special contact list in advance). As a result, a second after you log on to the Internet, friends and colleagues will learn about this joyful event. Even if ICQ could only do what is written above, then this would be enough to write the most enthusiastic ode to its creators. But ICQ can do much, immeasurably more!

Working with ICQ, you can send an email (and even a brightly colored greeting card) through its own server to anyone on your contact list, and it will be received immediately after that subscriber logs on to the Network.

Through ICQ you can transfer a file or voice message to your interlocutor, however, this can be done, unlike letters, only online, that is, when both interlocutors are connected to the Internet at that moment.

It is not surprising that ICQ has been nicknamed an Internet pager.

But ICQ is more than a pager, rather a universal communicator.

If your counterpart, like you, is on the Internet, you can immediately invite him to chat in text mode. Clever ICQ has its own chat program for this case. Moreover, ICQ will connect your voice communication programs, and you will not need to search for each other on different servers. If you want to find new friends with similar interests, you can register on the ICQ server and add your name and coordinates to one of the many lists of interests, for example, the list of people who are passionate about electronic music or who live in Volgograd. And to top it all off, ICQ will provide you with your own home page - on it, friends will be able to find only the briefest information about you and your ICQ number... In a word, this amazing, and also still free, program has a thousand and one talents.

The ICQ program is updated quite often, about once a month. But unfortunately, information about updates can not always be found on the official Mirabilis website. Therefore, my advice is to follow the messages of specialized news sites dedicated to software.

New versions of ICQ are also appearing on Russian ICQ sites, and there are already several dozen of them. Is it worth chasing program updates? Perhaps it's worth it. The innovations that the authors add to ICQ are very, very useful: for example, its latest versions can automatically remind you of the birthdays of your friends, while allowing you to send a beautiful virtual card, are equipped with their own system for searching information on the Internet... In a word, in ICQ “The storeroom will always have a lot of surprises for you. Don't forget that, in addition to the basic functions of ICQ (most of which you are unlikely to use anyway), you can easily get a dozen or two additional ones. New features for ICQ are implemented in the form of additional program modules (plug-ins), which you can download from the developer’s website. Thus, the ICQ Surf system will help you communicate with ICQ users who are on any site at the same time as you. Another plugin will allow you to save your contact list on the Internet on a special server from which it can be restored at any time. And one last thing. The official Russian version of ICQ, if it ever sees the light of day, will not be very soon. Therefore, domestic users, accustomed to the Russian-language interface, have only two options:

Download the “additive” created by Russian programmers, which Russifies the ICQ interface, and at the same time adds some new features to the program. In particular, along with the new ICQ you will also receive a completely Russified search system ICQ It, with which you can scour the Runet, armed with a dozen Russian search engines! You can download this utility on the Russian ICQ server - http://www.icqrus.ru. Just keep in mind that each version of the program requires its own version of the localization tool;

Use the services of an external translation program Lingoware (http://www.lingoware.com/russian/index.html), in contrast to the product of domestic wizards recommended by the ICQ developers themselves. At the same time, the program will provide a Russian interface for a number of system utilities (for example, the popular WinZip archiver or the Go!Zilla download manager). Although, in my far from objective opinion, domestic programmers did a much better job with the translation...

How does ICQ work? Let's start from the very beginning - with installation.

The distribution kit (that is, the installation kit) of ICQ is not difficult to find. The easiest thing is to go to the program’s home website at: http://www.icq.com or http://www.mirabilis.com, by selecting the Download ICQ section.

However, in my opinion, it is much easier to find one of the many Russian servers dedicated to ICQ. And not only because downloading from these servers is much faster. On Russian sites, in addition to the program itself, you can also find numerous “patches” and cracks. Here are just a few addresses, as they say, offhand: http://alexagf.narоd.ru/icq.htm, http://www.lov.ru/soft/ In addition, new versions of ICQ can almost always be found on the largest software servers - such as 3Dfiles (“http://www.3dfiles.ru”), Russian Software Club (http://www.rusc.ru) or ListSoft (http://www.listsoft.ru).

In the end, you can always take the distribution package of the program from any pirated disk: since the program is free, no one will see any violation of the law in this action.

As a result, an ICQ installation archive should be created on your computer. Launch it, thereby starting the installation procedure.

In the first screen, the program will ask you about the type of your Internet connection via modem or network (Lan), and will also inquire about who it is actually dealing with - a newbie or an already registered user. You and I, apparently, will have to choose the first option.

The next screen will show us a small user questionnaire that we must fill out. And this is where the first “fork in the road” lies – in what language should this be done?

In principle, you can also use Russian - but only if you are determined to communicate only with your compatriots. Foreign users of ICQ, of course, will not be able to read Russian letters - instead, dubious “krakozyabry” will appear before them. So it’s better to still use the Latin alphabet.

On the first page of the questionnaire, you need to fill in at least two fields - select your network pseudonym (nickname) and password to enter the ICQ network.

Necessarily remember the password - without it you will not be able to change your settings, or simply connect to ICQ. And try to keep this password your little secret: knowing it, anyone can easily assign your ICQ number, forcing you to go through this whole procedure again.

However, newbies who connect to ICQ now are not in danger of account theft - who needs a long 9-digit number? But with the “old people”, owners of short 5-7-digit numbers, such troubles sometimes happen...

Entering user information will continue in the second window: here you can enter your date of birth, information about your place of residence, as well as the languages ​​in which you can communicate.

Your ICQ number will be displayed in the next window. Remember it, or better yet, write it down: other ICQ users will call you on this number.

Finally, the last window is called ICQ Service. Here you can leave everything unchanged; you shouldn’t just agree to setting the ICQ page as your browser’s home page.

But the checkbox next to the item “Add a Email signature including Online / Offline status to my outgoing Emails” can be checked: thanks to it, each of your letters will contain a small “postscript” indicating the sender’s ICQ number, as well as a tiny program icon that will be able to signal your presence “on the line”. It's a small thing, but nice.

So, after completing this entire procedure, you should have an installed and partially configured version of ICQ, as well as three important parameters - your username (nickname), password and ICQ number.

After installing ICQ and restarting your computer, a modest flower with pale petals will appear in the right corner of your taskbar - ICQ Netdetect Agent.

The moment you log on to the Internet, the flower’s petals should turn bright green - this means that the connection to the ICQ server was successful. If the flower suddenly turns red, try again after some time. Right-click on the flower and select Status /Available/Connect in the Context Menu that opens.

To open the main ICQ window, left-click on the flower. For now, it is empty - after all, you have not yet added a single name to your contact list. Don't be upset - this won't be the case. In the meantime, you can start setting up the program.

So, here we have the main ICQ panel. Its central part is occupied by a contact list, in which the names of your regular interlocutors will be entered. For now, your contact list is empty, but don’t be upset: over time it will fill up and maybe even become larger than you want. I personally know several sociable citizens whose contact list includes more than a hundred names.

We have at least figured out the “internal” settings of the program. Now it’s time to get acquainted in more detail with the main window of the ICQ program, in which we will work. And above all, with a contact list, a notebook in which you will write down the names of your friends and acquaintances.

Just below the contact list there is a button panel, each button of which hides an entire section of ICQ settings and tools.

The appearance of the ICQ window and the presence or absence of certain buttons depends on the operating mode of the program. In Simple mode, you can work with a single contact list and four buttons:

Add – menu for adding users to the contact list;

Find Users - this menu performs approximately the same function, only if you call Add to add a specific person to your contact list, then Find Users will help you find new friends based on the similarity of your hobbies;

Main – the main menu, which contains the most important parameters and commands. We are already familiar with some items: here you will again encounter the menu for changing user information, the command for adding users (“Add Users”), as well as the settings menu for ICQ itself (Preferences) and security settings (Security & Privacy);

Status is a symbol of your status in the ICQ network, state.

It seems that this is enough. But there is also an Advanced mode - when you switch to it, two new buttons will become available to you:

Services – services menu (you have to use it extremely rarely). The settings for an answering machine, Internet phone, SMS and a number of other services are hidden here.

My ICQ – user settings menu. Here you can view or change information about the user (View/Change My Details), change the ICQ user (if you have more than one ICQ number, you can activate any of them with your own settings and contact database).

In addition, two new buttons will appear in the upper left corner of the contact list. Thanks to one of them, with the icon of a flower already familiar to you, you will be able to switch contact list modes. When the color is green, only active users who are online will be shown in the contact list. You can switch the contact list to another mode, in which the names from your contact list are divided into two groups. In the Online section you will see those who, just like you, are currently scouring the Internet (their names are placed at the very top of the ICQ window and written blue color).

You can switch between simple and advanced modes of ICQ operation in the Main menu, where you will find the items “To Simple Mode” or “To Advanced Mode” depending on which mode you are in.

Before we start working with ICQ, let's add a little more information about ourselves and our loved ones to the program. We have already entered some of the data we need when installing the program... But some remains, and it makes sense to engage in self-exposure right now.

Launch the program, click on the My ICQ or Main button. And then select the “View/Change My Details” menu.

Your ICQ business card consists of a dozen sections. The first two of them, in theory, should practically not require any adjustments - after all, we indicated all the information when installing ICQ! Creativity begins with the third section. Most users prefer to leave the Home and Work pages empty - it’s somehow inconvenient to display their details for the entire Internet to see. You never know what kind of conversations you’ll have to conduct via ICQ, what people you’ll have to communicate with...

In the Personal Info section, you can indicate the address of your home page or corporate website, as well as, once again, your age data - there is no need to hide them! In the About section, you can type a short free text about yourself and your hobbies.

The Interest menu serves to indicate your main passions: you can add up to four categories to your card (for example, music, cinema, family, lifestyle, sports, etc.), selecting them from a special list.

Preferences for each section can be specified. For example, are you interested in music? Feel free to select the appropriate section from the long list and in the next window you will see a list of subsections of this topic. If the keyword you need (for example, the name of the artist or genre) is not found in the list, it’s okay: you can enter them yourself into the special field at the bottom of the window, and then click the Add button.

In each topic, you can specify 5-6 keywords, which, if chosen correctly, can give the interlocutor a fairly clear idea of ​​​​your person. And most importantly, the keywords included in this menu can be used to search for your fellow hobbyists through special ICQ search engines! This activity is incredibly exciting: imagine how great it is to find your hobby colleague somewhere in Zanzibar, or, conversely, in the next doorway. True, what can come out of this communication is a separate question... Of course, if you are not going to engage in various nonsense such as searching for random acquaintances on the Internet and you feel sorry for the extra five to ten minutes filling out these fields, leave them blank. It’s also calmer - revealing your soul to strangers is always somehow scary...

The Picture menu allows you to add a small photo (up to 7 kilobytes) to your card. To be honest, I personally have never seen photos in an ICQ card: either people are lazy, or they are once again afraid of something...

The last menu – Phone Book – allows you to add contact phone numbers to your business card. This is what ICQ owners readily use: near the nicknames of a good third of the “clients” included in my contact list, tiny icons indicating “mobile phone” loom. For obvious reasons, home and work telephone numbers are rarely indicated...

Your card is now complete. Other ICQ users included in your contact list fill out their forms in exactly the same way (perhaps not in such detail). And if you want to get acquainted with information about any of them, click on their name right mouse button (in ICQ this is what is used to call the Context Menu) and select User Details/Address Book.

By clicking on the ICQ Menu button in the lower left corner of the window and selecting Preferences, you will have access to the program settings.

Let me reassure you – it won’t take too long to set it up. The main thing is to remember to configure the Check E-Mail tab by entering your email address, mail server name and access password. Now ICQ will periodically, with the frequency you set, check your mailbox and if new messages are found, it will signal this with a blinking exclamation mark on your Taskbar. At the same time, visit other preferences tabs - now you already have enough experience and will be able to figure out what’s what on your own.

I also recommend that you immediately go to the Miscellaneous tab and uncheck the Show “Welcome To...” screen... menu. This way you can get rid of the annoying advertising window that appears before your eyes when you launch the program. In the same window, select the “Russian” option in the Multilingual Support window.

The Security&Privacy menu will help you configure your “black” and “white” lists - Ignore List, Invisible List, Visible List.

If someone really annoys you with their messages, add their name to your Invisible List. In this case, even after you log into the Network, you will be “invisible” to the annoying ICQ client. True, letters from him will continue to arrive, but this can also be corrected by sending the persistent one to the Ignore List. Visible List, on the contrary, will make you available to the people included in it in any mode. Here, in the Security&Privacy/General menu, you can configure the authorization mode: by default, any ICQ user can add you to their contact list without asking your permission. If you are not satisfied with this state of affairs, you can check the box next to the My authorization is required... item in the Contact List Authorization menu.

...We were just going to talk about adding users to the contact list! After all, in order to send someone messages via ICQ, call for a chat, etc., we first need to add these people to our contact list! And it’s still empty for us...

Let's return to the main ICQ window. The Add/Find Users button will help you add the names of new recipients to your contact list. When you click on this button, the Search Wizard will get down to business and can find the person you need based on one or more parameters:

Nickname (nickname)

First and last name

Email address

ICQ number

Of course, it is best if you know the number of your potential interlocutor. How to recognize him? The simplest thing is to send an email asking for the number you are looking for.

If the person you are looking for has not yet tasted the delights of ICQ, you can easily push her down this vicious path. At your command, ICQ will itself send an email to the address you need with frank self-promotion, which will tell you everything: what exactly the program can do, and where to get it, and who exactly wants to make ICQ contact with you. And the name of this person will appear in a special folder of Highly Expected Persons - Future Users Watch.

But what if you are not looking for a specific person, but simply an abstract interlocutor who is close to your interests? Well, for this purpose, ICQ provides another type of search - by parameters, accessible through the Find Users button.

In this menu you need to specify other parameters: age, language, country (and even city) of residence, gender... But the most useful ones are the Interest and Keywords fields. Remember how I strongly recommended filling them out in your ICQ questionnaire? Now these fields will allow you to find your future friends, if, of course, they, in turn, are not too lazy to fill them out.

The more search fields you fill in, the better. On the other hand, don’t be too picky: if you want, for example, to find a lady of about twenty, living in the city of Kharkov, who speaks German and karate, and, to top it all off, is passionate about breeding hamsters and the work of Mikhail Weller... I’m afraid that your search will be a success will not succeed (although who knows?).

Do not forget also that by default the Find Users system displays a list of only those of your hobby colleagues who are currently online. If you want to get the full list, do not forget to uncheck the box next to the Show Only Online Users menu. Unfortunately, in this case, you won’t be able to find everyone at once: ICQ, for some reason, imposes restrictions on the number of people you can find in one search. This is how it turns out: if you make the request very specific, you won’t find anyone, set too few parameters, and you’ll find it, but you won’t see it. There is no justice in the world!

By right-clicking (or left - in ICQ you can configure any mode of operation) the mouse button on any name, you will open the Context Menu, through which you can select the type of contact you need with this person: send him a message, send a file, call him for a chat or a conversation by Internet phone. You can send him a beautiful virtual holiday card, an SMS message to his mobile phone, or even a regular email...

The list of ICQ capabilities is constantly growing, although most of us still use this universal communicator only to send simple text messages.

Just below, in the Offline section, you will see written red names of offline users who are not currently connected to the Internet. You can send a letter to these people using the same Context Menu. But that's all. Other ICQ communication capabilities are not available offline.

Pay attention to the icon divided in half flower in the upper left corner of the contact sheet.

In addition to sending messages, the ICQ contact list allows you to view the business card of each network member on your personal list. This is done in exactly the same way - by clicking the left button. In the menu that appears, you need to select the line User Details/Address Book... And then get to know someone else’s dossier to your heart’s content!

Finally, pay attention to the Alert/Accept Modes menu - with its help you can configure additional communication parameters for that specific participant.

Take, for example, the Alert section: by activating the appropriate items in it, you can force ICQ to notify you the moment your friend logs on to the Internet or changes their status.

The Status section will allow you to become “invisible” (Invisible To User) for this user or, conversely, always available, regardless of your current status (Visible To User).

The Override Status Mode menu allows you to specify at what status messages are allowed to be received from this user (see statuses below). And in the Accept section, you can check the box next to the Pop Up Response Dialog item: now all messages from this user will “pop up” in front of your eyes automatically, that is, you will not need to click on the ICQ icon to receive them!

There should be no problems with receiving messages via ICQ: the moment your computer receives a letter from one of the ICQ users, the program flower in the system tray changes to a winking note icon. Click on it and the incoming letter will immediately be displayed on the screen. And by clicking on the Reply button, you can join the discussion. But when sending new messages, as they say, options are possible, and we will try to study them in this section.

So, left-click on the name of the person you need (it doesn’t matter which list - red or blue) and select the Send Message menu.

A message sending window will open in front of you.

As you can see, everything is arranged quite simply: write your message in the lower field, click Send... And in the upper window we see the full protocol of the dialogue with the texts of both your messages and the interlocutor’s letters. But, in addition to this mode of operation, ICQ also provides another one, called Msg Mode. Once you click the button of the same name, the message sending window will take on a completely different look.

Now we have only one window in front of us: the protocol of the conversation has been removed from sight. No big loss - after all, the message log is always available through the Context Menu of any user, and at the same time through the History button on the panel of the window itself.

However, to compensate, we now have new features available to us... and some new buttons!

First of all, the new Send By... menu next to the Send button catches your eye: now you can send your messages not only via ICQ, but also to an email address and even to SMS. Moreover, for sending you can choose any combination of these three channels or any one of them. No less interesting is the Multiple button, thanks to which you can send the same message to any number of recipients from your contact list. At least everyone at once!

But already at the stage of writing messages, you can do some tricks with it using the additional toolbar. Of course, ICQ is far from Word, but minimal means of formatting and “revitalizing” text are present here too.

Let's leave the first two buttons aside for now (the option to mute/unmute the sound does not apply to text tools, and the spell check function is only available when working with English text). But the rest of the buttons are much more interesting:

Incept Smiley. You can also add a “smiley” to a letter using simple text symbols :)… However, ICQ’s own emoticons are much more beautiful. Don't you think so?

Incept Emotion. The same set of emoticons, only expanded. Thanks to it, you can emotionally color not just one word or paragraph, but also set the tone of the entire text. This is in theory. In practice, emotions are used even less frequently than graphic emoticons.

Buttons Text Font, Text Color and Text Background. But this is much more interesting! By choosing the right font color and background, you can enliven and highlight your message much more than using the same emoticons. The same applies to the font type. But I personally don’t recommend using this opportunity. After all, it’s far from a fact that the exotic font you choose will end up on your recipient’s computer. And as a result of such experimentation, I don’t think you yourself would want to get a herd of “cracker finches” instead of a clear text...

By right-clicking the ICQ icon and selecting the My Status menu, you can manually set your ICQ network status when logging into the network. The basic, main status, which is set for you by default, implies complete openness: everyone sees you, knows that you are currently online and ready to communicate. But... situations are different, right? And sometimes you need to make it clear to your interlocutors that you are currently somewhat busy or completely unavailable.

What does each type of status mean?

? Available/Connect– Everything is fine, user is online, you can communicate!

? Free For Chat– The user invites you to a chat conversation.

? Away– A user is online, but left for a couple of minutes... or hours - depending on your luck :)

? Occupied- In place, but Very busy! Please send only important messages!!!

? DND (Do Not Disturb)– Don’t bother!!! In general, and under no pretext whatsoever! There will be no answer!

? Privacy (Invisible)– “Invisible” mode (the user is available only to some people included in the corresponding list. For others, he is as if absent and does not appear in the list of those connected to the Network).

? Offline– Complete disconnection from the ICQ network.

Nowadays, the good old ICQ messenger is becoming popular again. The main reason for this is the huge number of innovations related to security, live chats, emoticons and much more. And today, it would be useful for every modern ICQ user to know his personal number (here it is called UIN). This is necessary in case a person forgets which phone he registered his account or his email with. After all, you can log in to ICQ using this same UIN.

Download ICQ

Find out the ICQ number in the program

To see your unique number in ICQ using a running installed program, you need to log in to it and do the following:

1. Go to the “Settings” menu in the lower left corner of the program window.
2. Go to the “My Profile” tab in the upper right corner of ICQ. Typically this tab opens automatically.
3. Below your first name, last name and status there will be a line called UIN. Near it there will be a unique ICQ number.

Find out ICQ number in online messenger

This method assumes that the user will go to the page of the online version of the ICQ messenger, log in there and do the following:

1. First, you need to go to the settings tab at the top of the messenger page.
2. At the very top of the open tab, under the first and last name near the inscription “ICQ:”, find your personal number in ICQ.

As you can see, this method is even simpler than the previous one. The reason for this is that the online version of ICQ has a minimum set of necessary functions, which greatly simplifies our task.

Find out the ICQ number on the official website

You can also find out your personal number on the official ICQ website. To do this you need to do the following:

These three simple methods allow you to find out your personal number in ICQ, which is called UIN, in a matter of seconds. It’s very good that you can perform this task both in the installation program and in Web ICQ and even on the official website of this messenger. It is worth noting that the task in question is one of the simplest among all possible tasks associated with the ICQ messenger. In any version of ICQ, just find the settings button, and there will definitely be a personal number there. Although now users are complaining about other problems with the operation of this messenger, even in the newest versions. One of these problems is the blinking letter i on the ICQ icon.

Hello friends. The most intense sociable period is the New Year holiday. After it, will you go into deep silence for a whole year? What about new acquaintances, friends, relatives - they will cry and miss you.

Don’t forget about them, communicate on the Internet at least. There are a lot of ways to communicate online. You can use Skype (video calls), simply - high-quality voice communication, or you can correspond with ICQ.

Today I’ll tell you in detail about the last method of communicating online. ICQ on computer- what kind of beast this is, how to install ICQ, configure and use it - all the answers are in the article.

Let's skip the history of the emergence of the ICQ messenger, starting from the Stone Age - I will say it in a nutshell. We saw this flower on the Internet...

This is the ICQ logo. It is used by almost all support services on different sites and services.

The ICQ protocol (I seek you) appeared a long time ago and many predicted its oblivion, death in the competition with new communication technologies. But it not only survived, but also develops, blooms and smells. Everything is simple - convenient, fast, practical.

Judge for yourself. Skype (and other video calls) - you need a webcam and microphone. You need to buy them, connect them, configure them... you need good communication quality, not the weakest computer... but this is not the main thing. I asked users...

— Why don’t you use Skype?

— Everything is complicated there, and in general...

This is about the same vague answer. The real reason for refusing this type of communication (applies to any voice communication) is that there is no time to think before answering, you can “blurt out” something wrong and then bite your elbows... distracts from the work of the greats on the Internet...

Many people are simply shy. Remember how in the song - “and made up - scary and not made up...”.

There are no such problems with Aska. You go about your business, browse websites and correspond in short phrases with a dozen people - no one forces you to write letters on two sheets of paper. You can exchange links instantly, a picture or an interesting file - wonderful. Practical.

There are many programs that support the icq communication protocol on the Internet, but one of the first and best was and is ICQ. By registering in it, you will receive a number that can be used in other messengers (that’s what similar programs are called). It will be like a mobile phone number - permanent, not changing after buying a new phone (reinstalling the operating system). My number is 15 years old.

ICQ (ICQ) - installation and configuration

First of all, you need to download ICQ from official ICQ website.

How to install ICQ

Click on the installation shortcut and the first window will appear...

If suddenly in English - press the triangle in the first, top line and select your language...

SPECIAL ATTENTION! Remember talked about all sorts of extra toolbars and panels and forced replacement, “without asking”, of the default search engine in the browser? Just such a case. If you select the first option “(Recommended)”, the home page and default search will change, the additional panel and Sputnik Mail.ru will be installed.

Check the second option and uncheck all the boxes. Do you think there are only three lines in a tricky, narrow field? No! This was done on purpose so as to at least sell something extra. Courageously click on the small triangle on the right and remove ALL the checkboxes - from all lines.

Installation started...

Click “Finish”.

How to get an ICQ number

Register on the service and get an ICQ number...

Do you want to get an icq number without installing the program? registration link.

I couldn't enter the password for a long time. I haven’t figured out the error yet - it must be at least 6 characters, if there are letters, then only Latin ones, and also, Attention - symbols or numbers should not be repeated more than 3 times(3777773 will not work).

Wait a minute and receive a letter to the email address you specified during registration...

Click the happy green button...

We get a window asking for your login and PASSWORD for your email. I liked the caption: “We won’t save your password.” Cheerful guys. I just closed the window - I’ll give anyone the icq number and add it to my contacts myself, as follows...

How to set up ICQ (ICQ)

For example, I entered the icq number...

You can find out your number in your profile (settings - my profile) - remember it, or better yet, write it down along with your password on a piece of paper and hide it. Remember them now, but in an hour you will register again - I know what I’m saying.

By clicking on the empty avatar field, select a profile picture...

If you press the right button.

I won’t describe all the settings; I’ll focus on an important point. You must specify the folder in the “File Transfer” item to save received files or pictures. What is indicated by default is incorrect...

It must be...

Now click on the contact with whom we want to communicate and write a few words in the lower field...

Don’t worry that there’s no one to write to—very soon you’ll be mercilessly deleting unnecessary contacts, believe me. Remember the search box?

Here you can find a huge number of interesting interlocutors. Set your search parameters at random and they will be there. To transfer a file you need to specify the resolution in the settings. Now during correspondence press...

Specify the file location and that’s it. The main thing is that the interlocutor also has a checkmark in the settings. Tell the incompetent where and how to do this, or copy the link to the article and paste it into the ICQ field.

Now you know that ICQ on a computer is easy. To new useful computer programs and.

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We'll talk about what is ICQ, or as people also say “ICQ”, since its pronunciation sounds like “ay-si-q”. It is also an Internet pager.

ICQ is one of the largest networks through which millions of people can exchange instant messages on the Internet. ICQ stands for I seek You, which translated from English means “I’m looking for you.” Currently, ICQ is owned by the Russian investment fund Mail.ru Group.

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ICQ is a centralized instant messaging service that uses the OSCAR protocol. The service user corresponds using a client program whose work includes an Internet connection. The program connects via the Internet to a server through which searches and communication with other users are carried out. Messages can be exchanged with or without the participation of the server itself. As in other large network systems that serve a large number of client requests, this server is not the only one and some are clusters of servers.
The first version of the ICQ 0.5 program was released in November 1996 and became one of the very first Internet chats.

ICQ was developed by four young programmers from Israel in Tel Aviv: Sefi Vigiser, Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger and Amnon Amir. They created their own company and called it Mirabilis (translated from Latin as wonderful, amazing).

The service is commercial, but you can use it for free. Manages the ICQ Inc. service. At the time of creation, the service belonged to its creator, that is, the Mirabilis company. After some time (1998), it was sold to the American company AOL, after which in April 2010 it was taken over by the Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies (DST). After the reorganization of DST (September 2010), ICQ joined Mail.Ru Group. In addition to ensuring the server is operational, ICQ Inc. develops various client programs and maintains an additional website.

Since its inception, ICQ has released many clients and has undergone many changes. In December 2011, the total monthly audience of ICQ was calculated. In Russia – 15.7 million, and around the world – 27 million. Most websites of organizations, enterprises, and companies use their ASEC numbers (UIN) as communications. ICQ is also used as quick technical support.

Account

In order to use ICQ you need to create an account, i.e. account. possible, both using the client program and on the official website. Instead of a client identifier, the service uses the so-called UIN, which stands for Universal Identification Number, which is translated from English as Universal Identification Number. UIN is a number that consists of 5-9 Arabic digits and is unique for each account. This number is created when registering in the system, after which you can log in using the UIN and password. The latest version for mobile phones that support J2ME has made it possible to log in using a mobile phone number, which automatically becomes the UIN for the new account.

Autumn 2011. ICQ has been updated and an important change has been made: from now on it supports multiple connections using only one account.

For each account, the system stores the following data:

Nickname (login) - the name that is displayed in the system, i.e. fictitious pseudonym. The difference from UIN is that it can be changed to a new one, and which may not be unique, that is, different accounts may have the same nickname;

E-mail – an email address that can be used to restore access to your account if you lose your password, and can also be used to log in instead of a difficult-to-remember number;

Information available to everyone, which is entered by the user himself. It may include your first name, last name, what you are interested in, where you live, knowledge of languages, your text description, etc.;

One avatar, which can be in BMP, JPEG or GIF formats;

The list of your contacts is a list of UIN numbers of other users (interlocutors) with whom you can quickly contact and see their presence status in the contacts window. This list is compiled by the user himself;

Presence status;

There is also an additional information status that the user enters.

The correspondence history will not be saved on the servers. It is accessible through the program interface and can be viewed locally only through the program installed on the user’s device.

You can call up the history of messages with your interlocutor and add him to your contacts list only by knowing his number. To search for other UIN numbers, an internal search function is built into the client interface, with which you can get a list of users according to the information entered in the search: match by name, email address, UIN number, gender, age, country and presence status.

You cannot remove your UIN number from the system. This possibility existed until 2002.

Presence status

Each account has a presence status, indicating whether the user is connected to the network and whether he is ready to respond to messages at that moment. The user's status is also shown in the chat window and in the contact list. The main status of the user is a green flower icon, which serves as an indicator of his presence near the device and whether he is ready to respond to messages. There are a number of basic statuses.

When a user is not in the system, that is, not authorized, he automatically receives the “Offline” status, that is, offline, in the form of a red flower.

There are also other intermediate statuses.

The “Away” status means that the user has not been active for 5 minutes (did not control the mouse or press any keys on the keyboard). The status becomes automatic or manual. This gives a signal that the user was not at the computer. Has an icon -

“Busy” status – indicates that the user switched to the “Away” status and from that time on he continued to be in an inactive state. Just like the “Away” status, this status can be set either automatically or manually. The status gives a signal that the user has been away from the device for a long time. Has an icon -

You can also disable automatic transition to these statuses “Away” and “Busy” in the program settings.

Previously, there were also “Free to talk” and “Do not disturb” statuses. Starting with ICQ4 they were removed, but you can see them from other users who use versions of ICQ 2003b and lower, as well as from most alternative programs. With the release of the 6th version of ICQ, they returned the ability to set the “Busy” status, but removed the “Free to talk” status. Also in the 6th version, the “Do not disturb” and “Busy” statuses are perceived the same, that is, only “Busy”.

In addition to these statuses, the user can set a special mode for the account, the invisible mode – “Invisible”. Icon – In this mode, other users will see the presence status as “offline”, and only users whose accounts have been added to the user’s visibility list can be notified of its activity and see its real status.

There are also extended statuses. There are many more of them than the main statuses.

These statuses show what you are currently doing and where you are. Examples. I want to communicate - At work - I write - I play - On the Internet at home And others.

Additional information status

With the advent of ICQ 5, a small addition was made to the ICQ protocol, which allowed users to have two statuses at the same time - main and additional. Users were able to write in the “What’s new?” box. your text statuses. In this case, this status is displayed in the contact list and in the chat window.

Contact list

After successfully connecting to your account, the client program downloads the user’s contact list from the server. Contacts in the list can be divided into groups and names (their number can be changed by the user).

When adding a contact, authorization is required, that is, you can see his presence status and you can send files. For such contacts, an authorization request is made. After which a request comes to the user who wants to add an account in the form of a system message. You can answer the authorization request with consent or refusal, and if you wish, you can add a text message to your decision.

You can add a maximum of 1000 contacts.

Private lists

In order to provide ourselves with the necessary level of confidentiality, ICQ has included several lists that perform the necessary functions. The lists are managed by the user himself, who can enter the necessary accounts without their notification.

There are 3 lists in total:

Ignored list – those who are on this list do not receive any messages, they are not shown a presence status other than “Offline”. When a contact is added to this list, the user's UIN is automatically removed from the contact list; when removed from this list, it is automatically added. If the contact is not authorized, you will have to make a request again.

Seeing list - those on this list will always see your real status, even if you turn on the invisibility mode.

List of blind people - those who are on this list will always show the status “Offline”.

These lists also limit the maximum number of contacts.

Messaging

Personal correspondence can be carried out with each of the contacts. If you do not disable the option, the interlocutor will receive information that I am entering a message. The number of characters in a message is also limited.

If at the time of writing the message the interlocutor is not online, the message will be saved by the service and will be delivered as soon as he connects to the network

ICQ has a built-in ability to format sent messages, that is, select the font, font size, change the font color, you can enable the function of writing in italics, bold and underlined, write text from left to right and vice versa from right to left. Also insert emoticons and special Zlango icons and messages into messages.

Sending files

ICQ also has a built-in file transfer feature that works using Peer-to-peer technology, that is, transfer is carried out when two computers are connected without the participation of a server. You can transfer files only when the recipient's presence status is “Online”. This transmission method can be dangerous, since the sender finds out the recipient's IP address (and vice versa) and can send a file containing viruses. With the advent of ICQ 5, they introduced the ability to send files through the server itself. This will be needed if the ICQ client determines that a P2P connection cannot be established.

Compatibility

ICQ is limited by compatibility with a similar AIM service. AIM users have the option to add ICQ users to their contact list, and vice versa.

Autumn, 2011. ICQ included compatibility with the equally popular instant messaging service in Russia, Mail.Ru Agent.

Since its inception, the founders of ICQ have been developing and presenting a free client program to users. Currently it is presented in two versions ICQ Lite and ICQ 7M. The program contains banner advertising. You cannot view the client's source code.

The ICQ program was founded by Mirabilis. It was given the name ICQ, and all other office clients (except Compad) were named the same.

The name of official clients always began with “ICQ” (with the exception of the failed Compad project). Later clients included additional features: sending SMS, video calling, IP telephony, multichat, games and much more

In addition, localized clients have been created and are supported by local IT companies. These clients in most cases have a difference from the base name, where the name of the corresponding company is entered. The company is introducing relevant banner ads that will allow you to link service accounts to your services (such as mail).

Terms of Use

The conversation via ICQ is not personal, i.e. confidential, even if there are two active interlocutors. As stated in the terms of use of the service, the rights to all information transmitted with the participation of the service are transferred to AOL Inc., this list also includes the rights to publication and distribution at its own discretion. Using the service means accepting these terms.

If you have accepted the rules, then you, as a user, transfer to ICQ Inc. your copyrights to information that was published using the ICQ service.

You agree that by transferring any document, file or information within ICQ Services you give copyright and property rights to the added information. In the future, you agree that ICQ Inc. the right to use this information in any form and for any purpose is granted, without being limited to the publication and distribution of this material.

Misuse

ICQ is also used to send advertising and spam. By registering a new account, the user receives a UIN number, which is a random number from a certain range (previously the numbers were received in ascending order). This greatly facilitates the work of compiling a list of numbers of existing addresses for spam and reduces it to a simple search of a certain range. For most clients, plugins have been created that block messages from bots, i.e. robots. Plugins that ask questions that require a meaningful answer. This is designed to prevent automatically sent messages from reaching the interlocutor.

We have come up with several methods for stealing short and beautiful (easy to remember) UIN numbers using some crackers that search for passwords. Another method is hijacking by a Trojan virus with the goal of future resale of the number or extorting money from the previous owner of the UIN. Once upon a time (1996-1997) they created accounts with six-digit numbers, but now you can only register eight or nine-digit ICQ numbers. Currently, six-digit and other numbers can be purchased in online stores, with prices ranging from 5 to a couple thousand dollars, depending on the number.

A little history

1996 Four high school students from Israel (Tel Aviv), namely Amnon Amir, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Arik Vardi, created an Internet pager and called it ICQ. Then they created their own company, Mirabilis.

Unlike similar ones, the client program was distributed for free.

The number of users increased very quickly. Mirabilis offered IM not only to private users, but also to corporate clients.
1988 The company was purchased by the American corporation AOL for approximately $407 million and became part of Time Warner's ICQ, Incorporated division.

Microsoft tried to lure ICQ users.

First I tried to create an IM protocol that would be more attractive than ICQ

I tried to buy out the company, but the answer was negative.

Attempts were made to make the protocols compatible (this would allow ICQ users to chat with Windows Messenger users). But it was not possible to do this, since the owner of ICQ specified different protocols each time.

As a result, Microsoft decided to abandon its idea.

April 2010 The DST Investment Fund (co-owner Alisher Usmanov) entered into an agreement with AOL to purchase the ICQ Internet pager. As a result, this transaction cost about 187.5 million US dollars.

September 2010 Digital Sky Technologies reorganized and ICQ became part of the Mail.Ru Group.

Burglar attacks

August, 16 (2010). The attackers, using a bot that can communicate, began sending out a document containing a virus, the purpose of which is to change the password for the UIN number and distribute the same virus throughout the contact list.

Malfunctions

There were cases when the media reported server malfunctions. As a result, the service became unavailable for some time.

The logo and symbol of ICQ is a flower.

ICQ and its logo are one of the well-known, popular and recognizable brands. The logo is a stylized drawing of a daisy flower with a yellow disk in the middle and eight petals. Seven petals are green and one is red.

This picture is used both in the service logo and in the program itself for the visual process of connecting a client to the server, as well as as a presence status icon.

In Russia, any ICQ client is assigned the slang name ICQ. The name is a common noun, and, naturally, it is written with a small letter. Depending on the context, this word means, for example, the same account - “ ”, or UIN - “six-digit asya”.

Currently, on July 29, 12, ICQ is prohibited for use in China, but users have the opportunity to use the Chinese analogue - QQ

Prospects

According to the data presented by Mail.ru Group, the monthly ICQ audience around the world from December (2009) to December (2010) decreased by 35% (17.6 million people) and amounted to 33.5 million people. In Russia, by December 2010, the audience amounted to 16.4 million people (decreased by 9% over the year). Mail.ru Group believes that such a sharp drop is due to the intensification of the fight against spam bots, but other representatives of the IT industry do not agree with this. This is also due to the fact that more and more Internet audiences prefer to use social networks for communication.

Despite the fact that new versions of ICQ have a huge number of pleasant innovations, the ICQ developers still failed to get rid of some old “sins”. One of them is an incomprehensible notification system about some problems in the installation version of the messenger. Usually the user sees the letter i flashing on the ICQ icon and cannot do anything about it.

Some reasons for the blinking letter i on the ICQ icon are:

• insecure password (sometimes during registration the system accepts a password, and only then checks it and, if the requirements do not meet, issues a corresponding message);
• unauthorized access to data (occurs if the account was logged in from another device or IP address);
• impossibility of authorization due to problems with the Internet;
• disruption of the operation of any ICQ modules.

Solving the problem

So, if the letter i is blinking on the ICQ icon and nothing happens when you hover the mouse cursor, you need the following options to solve the problem:

Surely, one of these methods should help solve the problem with the blinking letter i on the ICQ icon. The latter should be resorted to last, because you can always have time to reinstall the program, but there is no guarantee that the problem will not arise again.