Gary:

Be aware that the techs at ICQ say that version 3640 is buggier than ****.
The last stable version was 2000b or 99b.  Just FYI.

Sam Reiner

At 05:46 PM 11/11/01 , you wrote:
>I've used ICQ for 5 years without any problems..I recently installed version
>2001b beta v.5.16 build 3648..as always,i installed over the old
>version..all the features worked ok..last nite i wanted to check a setting
>and clicked the word "main" on the icq box and opened the prefs window
>without a problem...now for the puzzling problem...about 20 minutes later,i
>clicked the word "main" again and to my amazement,the link to the prefs
>window was not in the menu and neither was the link to "view\change user
>details"..now for more things..i no longer have the "add more users menu
>item"..the "feather and groups" icon on top of the window is not
>there...when i click the "services" button,there is no longer a reference to
>"activate the file sharing" feature..it's just not there...and all i can now
>do is send a contact a message...when i click a contact's name,all the
>features,except "message" have in brackets after each,the word "activate"
>but its grayed out and when i click on any feature like "web page url" i now
>get an alert that says "the feature that you are trying to download is yet
>to be supported in this version" and i get that alert on all the features in
>the contact name's menu...it seems that "something" has "deactivated" all
>the communication features in my icq...how all this could occur in 20-30
>minutes is simply amazing as i did not install or uninstall anything and all
>the features had been working with no problem...i then decided to redownload
>and reinstall the icq program...the build number was now 3640..i installed
>that file but the problems were still present...i also ran a vir*s check on
>my computer with norton antivi*us and no vir*uses were found...i am quite
>puzzled over this problem and would appreciated some advice to solve it and
>wonder if anyone has experienced the same thing...thanks,Gary Burke
>
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