Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:04:27 +1000 (EST) From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au To: craig@hotmix.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ICQ Message-ID: <199909060804.SAA20073@goblin.apana.org.au>
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Thanks Craig Any comments are welcome >I came across your post and although I dont know anything about running ICQ, we have a number of users on a LAN running ICQ through a firewall (on port 80). Our tech guy just re-installed windows and ICQ 99 and had the >following thing to say to one of our people. Maybe this can help? > >Cheers >craig > >============================= >Hello, > >Normally we would not have any idea but as I was rebuilding my computer and need to install ICQ I thought I would try the 99 version and see if I had >problems as well. > >I did. But it is not to do with firewalls and such, It seems to be ICQ. >There is no answer to the problem to be found on their site, just several >hundred people all suffering similar problems. > Hmmmm ... I've had a few ICQ problems in the past but always been able to get it working eventually but seems the problem is more elusive this time >The answer is not overly obvious but I suggest you try this. Go to the ICQ >web site. > >http://www.icq.com/password/ > >and type in your ICQ # if you have one. I am assuming that you have used >this previously. This will mail the password to you. I thought I had my >password down pat, but when I got the email I found it was quite different. > OK .... I'm quite certain about my password though as Ii've trialled more hardware and consequently done more re-installs in a month than most people do in a lifetime however I'll follow your suggestions anyway >If you are setting up for the first time or you now have your password then >you should follow these steps. > >Find the ICQ directory on your PC. It should be somewhere like c:\program >files\icq unless you set it to another directory when you installed it. > >Look for the ICQ NetDetect Agent icon. Double click it. You will see a small >yellow square in the task bar next to the clock. Click this. This will >launch ICQ for you. For some reason, when you set up for the first time, it >is important to launch ICQ in this way rather th To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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