ICQ is one of the oldest online messaging systems. The system was developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, and since 2010 it has been owned by the Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies. ICQ messages are transmitted through servers located on the Internet, and the client part of the program is installed on the user's computer or mobile device.
Instructions
Step 1
Start your operating system's standard file manager. In Windows, this is Explorer and you can open it by double-clicking on the "My Computer" shortcut on the desktop or by selecting "Computer" in the main menu on the "Start" button. Navigate the folder tree to the Program Files directory on the system drive of your computer - this is where all application programs are installed by default. In this directory, find the folder whose name begins with ICQ. There can be several such folders. You need the one with the version number after these three letters in the name (for example, ICQ7.6). Open this folder and find a file named ICQ.exe - this is the executable file of the program. You can launch it by double-clicking it, right-clicking it on the desktop or on the Start button to create a shortcut, and so on.
Step 2
Press the win key to open the main menu of the operating system. If you are using a version of Windows 7, then this menu has a box that says "Find programs and files." Enter icq in it and the system will find a file with that name for you. In the list with search results, you can do with a link to this file everything that was described in the previous step - run, copy, etc.
Step 3
Click on the "Start" button and open the "All programs" section - by default, new applications during installation put links to start the program, uninstall it, information materials, auxiliary files, etc. Find and expand in this section of the menu a subsection with a name starting with ICQ and ending with the version number (for example, ICQ7.6). With the ICQ item placed in this subsection, you can do the same as with the program shortcut - launch, move, copy. If you right-click on it and select the "Properties" line in the context menu, then in the "Object" field of the window that opens, you can see the full address ("path") where the executable file of the program is located on your computer.
