How to change the password in ICQ?

Sooner or later every Internet user will need to change the password - from his e-mail box, account in social network, skype or ICQ. This problem is especially acute for users of the good old ICQ messenger. Actually, how to change the password in ICQ, we now talk.

Relatively recently, it was impossible to change the password in ICQ directly through ICQ-client. We can only hope that the new owner of ICQ Mail.ru Group in the foreseeable future will become more loyal to the alternative ICQ clients and will return users the ability to change the password directly in the ICQ client. In the meantime, you can only perform this procedure on the official ICQ site.

You may have several different reasons for changing your password:

1. The most common reason - a person simply forgot the password in ICQ. Typically, this happens if the password was very complicated and tricky. Often this happens if the user has too many accounts in social networks and different messengers - nothing surprising that he can not remember the password in ICQ, and everything that interests him at the moment is how to change the password in ICQ.
2. If you suspect or know for sure that you have been hacked and are sending spam from your number.
3. If you bought your number from a third party and want to receive a new password.
4. If the password was too easy, and you need to make it harder.

Immediately warn: do not tell anyone and never your password in ICQ. If on any site you will be asked to change the password right there - do not believe it. This is an ordinary divorce. The password you entered will be written to a text file and sent to the owner of that site. And he can do anything with the password.

And now we will dwell in more detail on how to change the password in ICQ on the official website of this service. For this we need to go to the ICQ site - who does not know: www.icq.com.

You will be taken to the main page of the site where you will be asked to enter or register. You can log in to the system in two ways:

1. Enter the ICQ number and password from it into the empty boxes;
2. Fill in the address of the electronic mailbox to which the ICQ is registered and the ICQ password.

If you do not want to re-enter the login information, you can tick the "Remember on this computer" checkbox.

Important: for users of mobile ICQ there is an alternative way of authorization on the service by entering the mobile phone number to which the ICQ messenger is attached.

If authorization is successful, you can proceed to the next step. In the upper right corner you will see the message "ICQ Support", and under it - the link "Change Password". You need it to change the password in ICQ. Click on the link. A new "Change Password" page opens with empty "Current Password", "New Password" and "New Password (Repeated)" fields. Here everything is simple: enter the old and new passwords, click on "Save". It's all done.

And now we'll stop at how to change the password in ICQ, in case you do not remember the password. The algorithm of action is as follows:

1. Go to the ICQ website.
2. In the very top right under the already familiar "ICQ Support" sign you will see the link "Forgot your password?". Go through it.
3. You will be on the page "Password recovery". You will be asked to enter the ICQ number, e-mail address or your mobile phone number in the empty fields.
4. To prove that you are not a robot, enter the captcha.
5. Click on the inscription "Next".
6. It's all done. An e-mail or your mobile phone will receive a confirmation letter. All you need to do is click on the link in the email, after which you can change the password in ICQ.

Actually, that's all. If the procedure for changing the password succeeds, the system will notify you about this with the desired message "Password successfully changed".