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 > > "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware > programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. > http://freepctech.com/rode PCSOFT maintains many useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml