i may be wrong, but i believe icq started using ads when they made 2000b
Excluding ICQ lite, what is the most recent version of ICQ without advertisments in the individual message windows?
i may be wrong, but i believe icq started using ads when they made 2000b
You can get rid of ads in newer version of ICQ using ICQPlus, when you have a skin on, the ads do not show up. It's not really an ideal solution, but it works in a pinch.
There's a few sites around that explain how to remove ads from later versions, but these days, it usually seems to involve deleting your history database.
If you really want ICQ with no adds use Trillian.
www.trillian.cc
its a clone of ICQ that can also do AOL, MSN, IRC and Yahoo.
Yeah, Trillian (and other clients like EasyMessage, Odigo, Lycos, etc) will do the trick having no banners, but it doesn't bother me using ICQ client.
you can use older versions of icq, but due to change in protocol to v7 or v8, you wont get your offline messages, but can still send,
its easy to stop the banners, no hacking
go to the icq folder, find the file/folder called AteBrowser
delete it, make a txt file with same name, make it read-only.
thats it.
thats all i ever do.
Hmmm youre lucky this didnt work for meits easy to stop the banners, no hacking
go to the icq folder, find the file/folder called AteBrowser
delete it, make a txt file with same name, make it read-only.
thats it.
thats all i ever do.
ICQ2003a
Win98
I.E.5
It disabled ICQ s.m.s. at first attempt & then ICQ just rewrote the folder & I have those lovely (not) adds back
sorry to hear that. that is how i currently set up all icq clients for people i help out.
its possible, that you are not setting up explorer to SHOW AL FILE EXTENSIONS.
look in any folder. see if the files all end with a DOT.EXE, DOT .TXT, if not. that will not permit the creation of a file named ATEBROWSER, without adding the creator extension, such as .txt
so if you arent seeing the .txts, you need to permit all extensions to be shown. then now when you create files. you will need to add the last 3 file creator extensions.
and if you do not add the last 3, you then can create files with no extensions, which is required when making the ATEBROWSER file i mention above.
since explorer defaults to hiding the last 3 letters on all files. it needs to be shown. if you arent seeing them, its hiding them.
can be changed via
Windows Explorer / TOOLS / Folder Otpions / VIEW
Thanks for the long go slow:-) explaination I created the txt file & deleted the .txt extension .All is well add free & s.ms working :-)sorry to hear that. that is how i currently set up all icq clients for people i help out.