AboutJoerg Droege Expertise I can answer all questions regarding ICQ except those like: "I have lost my password, how do I get it back?" because I am not an ICQ Team member, so I cannot do anything about lost passwords.
Experience I did an education as a Management Assistant in Informatics, I am using ICQ since ICQ2000b, but of course I know the current ICQ client the best. I also used the alpha ComPad ICQ client.
Education/Credentials Management Assistant in Informatics education under the control of the CCI (Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
Expert: Joerg Droege Date: 6/10/2008 Subject: can 't connect to icq chat?
Question QUESTION: i have window vista since they updated it i can't get into any icq chat called msn called microsoft said they can't help it is an icq problem but it worked before i don't understand what happened thanks
Which Windows Vista version you are using? (32bit or 64bit? Is Service Pack 1 installed?) - > START --> RUN... -> winver
Which is the exact error message and what you tried?
Thanks in advance!
All the best!
Bye!
Joerg
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QUESTION: hi joerg yes i mean the icq chat rooms i have the 32bit and also have the service pack installed when i try to enter the chat it reads trying to connect not connected trying to connect not connected about 3 times in red then it will stay like that and nothing happens thanks
Answer Hello again Maria!
Thanks for supplying more details.
Here is my reply!:
What most people do not understand is: ICQ Chat is nothing more than a server in the IRC network (check wikipedia for "IRC"!)
I suggest using an IRC client instead to connect to the ICQ chat server/room. Nice is e.g. is http://www.xchat.org/
But I think this is anyway because something blocks communication throught port 6666 which is the port IRC uses to connect and communicate.
