Outdated: ICQ has shut down their services on June 26, 2024.

Wanna go back in time? ICQ6 – i’m sure you remember – was an essential in the early 2000’s for many of us young millennials alongside of MSN Messenger.

Of course. nothing can eff with the mighty MSN, but i changed my password recently and couldn’t log in. Their server didn’t accept my ICQ6 knocking on the door.

The support told me that i should download the latest brickwall, rectangle, lifeless ICQ. Uhhhh, after a second request begging them for a workaround, still a “nope”. So i just analyzed this old, abandoned software for experimental purposes.

Here’s a quick fix.

  1. Download ResourceHacker
  2. Open the program.
  3. Drag ICQ6.exe into it.
  4. Click “VersionInfo” on the left side. 
  5. Replace every old version number with this one: 6.0.0.6043
  6. Click Save. 

You can now log in again! Would be a shame

if you couldn’t! 

 

Add me for the lulz: 351846929.

Let’s act like it’s 2006.