Scan & Fix 50 registry issues FREECNET Editors' review
This venerable chat client upgrades with a retooled look and enough Preference control to satisfy even the most obsessive fans of customization. ICQ 6.5 includes video, audio, and text chat modes in a strong push to make the app the most versatile chat client around.
Audio chatting was smooth and painless, although that depends on user connection, of course. There's also a new Quick IM feature that allows you to send a text chat from within your contact list. The text window is only one line high, but perfectly sized if you're just shooting off a quick note.
Many of the notable plug-ins have been folded into the new version as standard features. Standard fare in ICQ now includes SMS messaging and the Flash-movie tZers as well as alerts and skins. Consequentially, the quick-loading app has a larger footprint. Ad banners are nonexistent except in the built-in games, and all text chat histories are automatically saved. Some features, like Push2Talk, seem to have been phased out of the new version, and customizing tZers is no longer an option. Also, the Help option is non-functional in this release.
Despite a few minor setbacks, there are too many improvements to keep ICQ down. Other notable additions include split-screen compatibility, IM forwarding, and integrated Google searching. In enhancing its already rich feature set, ICQ has definitely increased its standing among its many competitors.
ICQ:Publisher's Description
From ICQ:
ICQ, the classic Instant Messaging service, has launched its newest version, ICQ 5.1. The one stop service for all your communication needs.
The ICQ 5.1 version includes all of the essential communication features such as messaging with the ability to save your chat history, file transfer, sending SMS messages (in selected countries), Voice & Video chats, and an extensive directory search for meeting new people. It also provides the ability to add and communicate with AOL and AIM users. In addition, ICQ has recently introduced ICQ Phone, a new, low-rate way to make PC to Phone calls. ICQ Phone joins the multimedia feature set that includes ICQ Push-to-Talk, the ""walkie-talkie "" like service.
ICQ also includes Xtraz which allow you to send personalized greeting cards, apply custom icons to your buddies, play online games, and customize your shortcuts panel for one-click access to all your favorite features. The ICQ Xtraz platform enables ICQ to present users with a selection of new services as they are created, without the need for you to download a new client. ICQ Xtraz also supports the creation of new ICQ features that can be built separately from the core ICQ client and then delivered and automatically updated over time. The new interface is clean and intuitive, so you can start chatting quickly and easily.
Users now have more options to customize ICQ 5.1's newly designed interface. ICQ tZers allow users to send short flash animations to their Contact List friends as well as newly designed boyz and girlz skins and emoticons to add more personality to their messages.
What's new in this version: Version 5.1 includes unspecified changes and fixes.
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"much better than MSN"
Version: ICQ 5.1
Pros
This is an excelent soft
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"ICQ is not the best IM anymore"
Version: ICQ 5.1
Pros
Advanced user search features, visibility settings, custom status editor.
Cons
ICQ used to be the best IM solution but this version is too bad. The network and client are both unstable, the client is full of advertisements, pop-up windows and its interface looks like it was designed by a kid. Get Windows Live Messenger or Google Talk instead... or if you want to stick with the old friends from ICQ network, you'd better try out Trillian, Miranda or QIP.
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"Beauty is only skin deep!"
Version: ICQ 5.1
Pros
It was very pretty, nice colours, icons, the website / profile area is nice... it's like an internet version of a sweet shop/candy store...
Cons
...everything else! Repeated crashing, did not like the way it sent messages, took forever to remove then had to clean registry and do a spyware scan... the list goes on! In a two words: Pretty awful! That's my opinion anyway.
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"Tell and Ring Your Buddys"
Version: ICQ 5.1
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Dose not tell you if you can talk to MSN users.
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"Free chat!"
Version: ICQ 5.1
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The network of ICQ is stable and fast.
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"Popular but not perfect"
Version: ICQ 5.1
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The thing is the new games and the huge popularity it has.
I use it too because everybody uses it. But still a lot of people uses Skype. And Skype IS perfect.
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Version: ICQ 5.1
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Not interested in product-need to remove- need file ICQLite.log to uninstall- search cannot locate in previous download>possibly one that's incomplete (?)-need help using the uninstall feature. Reason for asking another download ICQ5.1-
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