What is ICQ, why doI have it and do I need it?

What is IRQ and why do I have it on my new computer, and why do I need it, or even want it and what do I do with it now that I have it?

I’m not computer smart. When I was a kid, the smallest adding machine weighed 3 pounds and had to be plugged in and used a tape only read-out. I figured the first red LED watches were magic. I could buy a cheap laser from a scientific magazine, Centarui Industries, for $1000. (Mine cost $12 last year.)

This ICQ sign on thing kept popping up when I initialized AOL and got online with the new PC and begged me to sign up, so, after finding no way to get rid of it, I did. Now, I know how to get rid of it.

Do I want to?
BTW, why do new computers have 4 music programs, two of which promptly start the Internet when triggered and 6 ISP programs like AOL?

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IRQ or ICQ? They’re very different things. I think you mean ICQ, which is a chat program. You only need it if you want to chat. If you don’t, feel free to remove it.

And new computers often come pre-installed with all kinds of crapware, supposedly for your convenience, but mainly because the people who make the software pay or are affiliated with the people who build the computer. Delete anything you don’t want - it’s your machine!!

Do not, however, try to delete MSN, unless you really want to reinstall Windows.