Despite the fact that the audience of followers of the widely known Internet messenger ICQ is steadily narrowing under the blows of competing services around the world, and, first of all, thanks to Skype, nevertheless, in Russia there is still an ICQ share in this market very significant. Many users, even setting up an account in the ubiquitous Skype, still do not dare to remove the green flower in the lower right corner of the screen, because friends live there and all the correspondence with them (by the way, sometimes it is very useful) with two thousand of some gray of the year. And just this is already part of the history of our new digital world.
The popularity of the service has generated a large number of programs that allow you to communicate via ICQ, but without using the client it provides. At one time, it was overloaded with advertising and extra features, which slowed down the work not only of ICQ itself, but of the entire user's computer. Such alternative clients for ICQ as QIP, Miranda, Trilian and others gained popularity.
More recently, there was a real hunt for beautiful and compact numbers, and even in 2012 there were a lot of sites that offer the so-called “six-character”, ICQ short numbers consisting of only six digits. These numbers are considered very prestigious among "ICQophiles", young hackers and generally all lovers to demonstrate to others their extraordinary and stand out in every way from the "gray mass".
That's just the popularity of beautiful numbers and, as a result, the constant attempts to steal them from dishonest IT businessmen, made the service owners tighten the rules for creating accounts and changing data in them (not so long ago, the Israeli company that created ICQ was overbought by the giant Mail. ru).
Thanks to these changes, now to change the icq password in case of a break-in danger, or just for your own peace of mind, you will need to choose from two options. Download the official client (this applies only to those who use third-party software) or go to the main website of ICQ and go through the whole procedure from beginning to end. Moreover, it should be said that changing the password in icq will now be much more difficult than before if you do not have all the necessary data. It is no longer possible to use Russian letters in passwords, which is interesting, now you can’t even change the password if it contains Russian letters.
Well, it’s difficult - it doesn’t mean impossible, let's figure out how to change the icq password in four steps.
First, try to change the password from the messenger itself.
First, click on the flower in the right corner of the desktop and open ICQ.
Secondly, click “Menu” on the top panel.
Thirdly, select “change password” from the drop-down menu and get a page on which you can change the icq password.
And the final point, check that your keyboard has an English layout installed, then type the current password (I hope you remember it), enter the password again, then write a new one and enter the verification code. It remains only to click the "Save" button. That's all, changing the icq password from the client was quite simple.
What you need to know when choosing a new password? Firstly, its length cannot be less than six characters, and secondly, it must contain lowercase and uppercase Latin letters, and it must also contain numbers. You can, of course, make the password Qwe123, and it will meet the new requirements, but it’s better to think a bit and enter something more complicated. It is highly recommended not to use birthdays, phone numbers and simple keyboard combinations of adjacent letters / numbers. Why ease the task of crackers? Password of the form A3B4J12k23 is much harder to crack, but remembering it is not easy either, so you should definitely write it down or strain it and remember it well.
Well, now, you know how to change the icq password and you can do it without any problems every time you decide that there is a need. Good luck