All you need to do is go into your ICQ folder, and
1. Copy the "2000b" folder to your desktop.
2. After you reinstall ICQ ... run it and register an existing user(your account # and password are needed). You will then have your list, but missing all your contacts.
3. Now CLOSE ICQ and go to your 2000b folder on your desktop. Drop that folder back into C:\Program Files\Icq ... then with ICQ NOT RUNNING, double click on the "DBconvert" icon located in the same directory.
4. If you have multiple user accounts on your ICQ, you will have to repeat steps 2-3 for each account.
** Most people have trouble restoring their contact lists, simply because the don't REGISTER AN EXISTING USER before they run the DBconvert. Your ICQ number MUST first be associated with your ICQ client, for the database converter to work. People who just drop the database files into a new install of ICQ with no accounts yet associated to it will be unsucessful in running the database converter, ... and will of course blame it on ICQ.
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