Okay, I hope this is okay to post here, but I didn't want to register to an ICQ board just to post one small tip. If anyone who's already registered on some ICQ related forum reads this, pass it on.

I never use ICQ's sms/video/phone options, but I do like the quick access menu they added in ICQ6 that gives you access to common functions right from the contact list. I wanted to remove some of these shortcuts, in part because I never use them and in part because they push the "file transfer" shortcut into a "more" (arrow) menu, which means it's no longer quickly accessible. Anyway, after some digging around I found out it's easy to do.

In the ICQ6 installation folder go to services\icqApp\ver1\content\MUICore\ContactList and open the CLUserCommLine.box file in any text editor (notepad will do but something like editpad or notepadd++ is better). Actually back it up first just in case.

In the file find a block titled "icqUserCommLineToolbar". You will see a bunch of XML code, most of it is not important, what's important is the following section



These are the six shortcuts you have there - send message, send sms, voice, video, call phone and file transfer. Each button is handled by the piece of code starting with '', so if you want to remove any of the buttons or maybe rearrange their order to put what you use most first then just rearrange/remove those lines.

Cheers
White Rabbit

P.S. I've no idea why the xml code is displayed like that, I can't seem to be able to properly format it, sorry.