ICQ Messenger Service
Windows XP for ICQ 2000b
by Stanley Sy (starvingartist)

influx@mailexcite.com
http://members.nbci.com/stanleysy



Credits:
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author:	Stanley Sy (starvingartist)
email:	influx@mailexcite.com
url:	http://members.nbci.com/stanleysy

Special Thanks to IRazor for his help!



Hello!

Feel free to email me or visit my website.

Check out my other skins including Mettle,
Cold Mettle, Sakura, ICQ Messenger Service,
Angel, Astrophysics and more!

Thanks for downloading this skin.

~ stan



Program:
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ICQ Plus
by Vadim Eremeev
url: http://www.icqplus.org



Installing
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ICQ, by itself, cannot load a skin.  You'll
need to download a program called ICQ Plus
(which acts as an add-on to ICQ).

You can get the program at http://www.icqplus.org

When you download and install the program,
there should be a "plus sign" ("+") beside
the minimize button on your icqplus window.
Click on it and you can choose any installed
skin you want.

****** New For ICQ Plus 3.0 ******
To install this skin, you need ICQ Plus 3.0 or
higher. Unzip the .zip file and then double-click
on the .ipz file to automatically install the skin.
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ICQ Button Ad Removal (ICQ SMS)
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To take out the button, use this method:

Keep in mind, the folks at ICQ probably have ways
to overide this, so think of this as a temporary
solution. Back up your Partner folder and try this
method ONLY at your own risk!

1.) Go to your ICQ folder (usually, it's
    "c:\program files\icq"), then the Partner folder.
2.) Open up all the .bmp files in Paint and fill each
    of them with hotpink completely (The magenta-ish
    color defines transparency). Save the bitmaps.
3.) Open the .xml files in Notepad, erase everything
    and save.  Set all those files to read-only
    (Right-click on the file, pick Properties.
    Checkmark the read-only attribute.) You can also
    change the Partner folder attribute to read-only
    also.

Another method posted by Kendo from skinz.org:

 Here is another fix for the SMS thing. Worked on
 mine 9XSE. "Delete these files from your icq
 directory icqateima32.dll (removes advertisement
 downloading) icqateimg32.dll (removes the loading
 of images) icqateres.dll (removes part of the
 advertisement function) then remove the "partner"
 directory and restart icq and you are done." ;D



History:
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Version 2.0 (03/08/2001)
 Created for ICQ Plus 3.0 and ICQ 2000b
 New toolbar background
 Titlebar and buttons resized for all windows
 Titlebar transparency for all windows
 ICQ custom animation
 Radio and Checkbox skinned

Version 1.0 (02/07/2001)
 Window XP skin.  ICQ 2000b version.

