Change password icq

Despite the fact that the audience of adherents of the well-known Internet messenger ICQ is steadily narrowing under the impact of competing services around the world, and, first of all, "thanks to" Skype, nevertheless, in Russia there is still a share of "ICQ" in this market Is very significant. Many users, even creating themselves an account in the ubiquitous Skype, still do not dare to remove the green flower in the lower right corner of the screen, because there are friends and all correspondence with them (by the way, sometimes it is very useful) with two thousand some gray-haired of the year. And it's just that it's 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 through ICQ, but without using the client provided by it. At one time it was overloaded with advertising and unnecessary features, which slowed the work not only of the ICQ itself, but of the entire user's computer. Such alternative clients for ICQ such as QIP, Miranda, Trilian and others have become famous.

More recently, there has been a real hunt for beautiful and compact numbers, and even in 2012 there are a lot of sites that offer so-called "six digits", short ICQ numbers consisting of only six digits. These numbers are considered very prestigious in the environment of "ascophiles", young hackers and all amateurs in general to demonstrate to their surroundings their uncommonness and in every possible way stand out from the "gray mass".

That's just this popularity of beautiful rooms and as a result of constant attempts to steal them from impure IT-businessmen, forced service owners to tighten rules when creating accounts and changing data in them (not so long ago the Israeli company that created ICQ was overbought by Mail giant. Ru).

Thanks to these changes, now to change the icq password in case of a security breach, 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 ICQ site, and go there the entire procedure from beginning to end. At what, it should be said that changing the password in icq will now be much more complicated than before if you do not have all the necessary data. It's no longer possible to use Russian letters in passwords, which is interesting, you can not even change your password now if there are Russian letters in it.

Well, it's difficult - it does not mean impossible, let's see how to change the icq password in four steps.

First try changing the password from the messenger itself.

Firstly, we click on the flower in the right corner of the desktop and open the ICQ.

Secondly, we press "Menu" on the top panel.

Third, we select the "change password" item from the drop-down menu and get a page where you can change the icq password.

And the final point, check that your keyboard is set to English layout, then type the current password (hopefully you remember it), re-enter the password, then write a new one and enter the verification code. It remains only to click the "Save" button. That's it, changing the icq password from the client was quite easy.

What do you need to know when choosing a new password? Firstly, its length can not be less than six characters, secondly, it must contain lowercase and uppercase Latin letters, and still there must be numbers in it. You can, of course, make the password Qwe123, and it will meet the new requirements, but it's better to think a little and introduce something more complicated. It is highly not recommended to use birthdays, phone numbers and simple keyboard combinations from a number of standing letters / numbers. Why make it easier for burglars? The password of the A3B4J12k23 type is much harder to crack, but it's not easy to remember it, so it's necessary to write down, or to strain 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 it is necessary. Good luck!