The problem with deleting users from your list is ICQ's home servers keep a record of your userlist now. I think that is a handy thing, actually because if you lose literally everything on yoru computer, you can start over with a new one, install ICQ, and you get your contacts back from their servers.
But, I've found that simply deleting users from your contact list locally doesn't always remove them from the ICQ central servers. That is, unless you answer YES to deleting that user's history as well.
After doing that (deleting several users along with their history), you computer will be so slow you won't be able to do anything else with it until you reboot it. But this seems to be the only way to geet ICQ running back at an acceptable speed.
The other option of course is to use the browser based ICQ version, which I have always found to be very fast, but no history option is available.
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