ICQ Chat Stuff- If you invite someone to a chat session and put on Sleep or minimize the window, you will not see the person's writing and will have to reset the screen or switch layout. While messing around with myself on my Contact List (mentioned in General Section), I`ve sent myself chat requests, had a chat with a single person in it (me), and kicked myself out of a chat. If you ever find yourself sitting with someone in a chatroom, and you know they are typing, but you don't see it, click layout then click reset. This also works for when the chat windows overlap, screw up, basically anything. If clicking reset does not work for you, I suggest chaning the layout to IRC Style then going back and then reset the layout. Or you ma just have the Freeze button clicked on, which you'll find near there name. If you like messing around in chat, try a beep bomb. Simply press and hold Ctrl-G and watch 'em get mad. If you find yourself being beep bombed, simply click other then un-click Enable Sounds. The sleep feature is very nice when you are chatting with 2-3 people. Essentially whenever someone types something, the chat windows pops back up. You can either click the button on the tool bar or press Ctrl-S. One odd thing I noticed when someone uses Ctrl-S to sleep, it will leave an ASCII box in thier window, which they cannot see. Scrolling is lame, and if you do not know how to do it your lame, so I am not going to tell you how. Alright I will, the most efficient way to scroll is go into IRC style and sit and press ENTER, however cutting and pasting something into the box a bunch then pressing Enter often will lag the people in the chat to hell. For instance, set the font size to 1 and copy a line of @ or something then Ctrl-V, Enter, Ctrl-V, Enter, etc... Another cool thing to do is if you have any old IRC macro's, save them into a .TXT file then copy them to clipboard. Go into a chat, make sure your buds do not have Override Format on, then take your font size to about 3 or 6, then paste it. The Terminal font usually is best for macro's, because it will fit as it does in your .TXT file. If you find yourself annoyed by really small or really large fonts, or just all the colors, click Display then Override Format, and everything will look like your font and background settings. If you are sick of the default ICQ chat colors, click Display, then Color, or Back Color, and you can choose colors from the entire palette. Warning though, if you are on 32-Bit color, do not choose the same colors at different depths, as many people use 256 color settings and will not see your fonts. If you have a lot written or the chat screen, or just wrote something nasty and want to erase it on your side, click File, and Clear Buffer. If you want to save something, click File and Save Buffer. A lot of people attempt to create mega-chat parties, where they invite like 200 people. These DO NOT work, you will not see everyone in the chat, which is another bug in ICQ Chat Module. Also in normal chat's sometimes, people will leave on someone's screen, etc... There is no way to fix this except to leave then re-invite yourself. To kick people from chat, click File, Kick User, then double-click the user you wish to dispose of. This will bring up a voting dialog. However kicking in party chat's is not effective, as often there are other people who will re-invite them. If you get a chat request from a lamer, click Decline, then Enter Reason, then put a period (.) and then hit and hold Enter until the window is unable to hold anymore, then click OK. Then the window will be to large to fit in their screen, and they will not be able to close it unless they press Spacebar,enter, or Alt-F4. ICQ Message / URL Stuff- In ICQ 98 you can double-click a name and it will open up the Message box. To annoy someone, you can send them Message Bombs, just by repeatedly opening a window, saying something, then sending. There are also Programs which do this, which you will find at the bottom of this page. To send a Mass Message, open the message box, click More, Multiple Recipients, then click all the names you wish to send to. ICQ File Tricks & Bug Stuff- If you want to send multipe files, simply hold Shift, and then select the files you want to send. Note when you send files like this, the reciever will not see the files name, rather "X files", so put a description of them. To send 2 or more specific files, in the Select Files window, find the files you want to send. Once you know the file name nad extensions, put them into the box next to each other. Once done, put quotation (" ") marks around the files. Note when you send files like this, the reciever will not see the files name, rather "X files", so put a description of them. A simpler method of this is simply hold CTRL down while selecting files. General Tips & Bugs of ICQ- You can add yourself to your own Contact List by going to the directory UIN under ICQ, then adding yourself or asking your authorization. Then simply click yourself and add yourself! WARNING! Please backup your Contact List before you do this. Otherwise once you shut off ICQ, you will lose your whole Contact List! Did you realize that Do not Accept is spelled wrong when you send an Internet Phone/Game request to someone! Take a look for yourself! If you place a - in front of your nick name and restart ICQ, the fields 'Nick Name, First Name, and Last Name' will be changed to 'Category, Company, and Department' Thanks to o0o-CHeeTo-o0o for this! Also I played around with it some and if you place a &- it will change nick name to chat room instead of company and not change last name. When for some reason you want to seem off-line to everyone, use the Invisible status. However whenever you send a message in this mode, the reciever will know you are on invisible status. If you do this, just go Off-line on ICQ, then go back on Invisible status. Hate it when ICQ servers go down? Try rapidly clicking On-line, Off-line, and Invisible. This works for me and many other users, try it! To hide yourself from a specific lamer, or seem away, Right-Click their name. Thel goto Alert/Accept Modes, amd choose Invisible to user, away to user, or Visible to user. Visisble to user will allow them to see whenever your on ICQ, even in Invisible mode. If you have your ICQ setup to automatically set Away on after X minutes, and if you have it setup to goto N/A after X minutes, note that when it goes on N/A, your away message will be lost. If you find yourself unable to connect to ICQ, try going Off-line, then On-line repeatedly, sometimes you can force your way on. Click the ICQ button, hold it, then drag your mouse over to the Contact List, notice the ICQ button is stuck in. Maintain your Invisible, Visible, and Ignore lists by clicking the ICQ button, then Security & Privacy. You can also Mask your IP address in this window. After you have around 200+ users on your Contact List, you will begin losing ones you do not contact often. If you would like to save your Contact List, look for the directory DB, in your ICQ directory. Then just copy all the files somewhere. Many of the higher UINs (60000, 70000, 80000, etc...) belong to ICQ officials. If you would like Arik's, the CEO of Mirabilis, I believe. It is 60000. To mess someone's e-mail express up, E-mail bomb UIN#@pager.mirabilis.com, substitute UIN# with there UIN. To page someone, goto http://wwp.mirabilis.com/UIN#, substituting UIN# with there UIN. Note once sent, your IP will be stamped on the message, so do not harrass anyone in this way. You can Ignore Mass message and other types of message by clicking Security & Privacy, then Ignore List. You`ll see it there. With ICQ 98, you can right-click anything with explorer in Win95 and send it to a user. However if your Contact List has to many people on-line, you will not see all names. In your About box if you use a ' it will come out as a ", so use ` for it. This also happens in regular messages with some users. If you find yourself being harrassed by someone, I suggest you put them on Ignore, or hide from them with Invisible. (downloaded from http://zap.to/cyberhack made by the deadman.. you can mail me at deadman99_@hotmail.com)