On Oct 8, 5:57*pm, H the K wrote:
On 10/8/09 6:52 PM, Tim wrote:





On Oct 8, 5:41 pm, Vic *wrote:
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:15:40 -0400, Tosk

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Yes, after a very deliberate insinuation that they were "the internet".
It made many older folks afraid to leave them.. Years ago when I built
computers, I used to put it right in the contract "installing anything
AOL voids the warrantee, period".

My dad's computer was running out of memory when I was down there so I
disabled all the startup items with msconfig.
Think he has 2gb memory.
Didn't bother looking at the list, but it was long.
Probably AOL's fault. * But it could be a Bush or Obama doing.

--Vic

If you shut down AOL, occasionally it would stop the shut down so it
could clean out a bunch of it's "artwork" which was a real pig on
memory space.

i wonder how much AOL pays computer mfj's to still pre load AOL on new
machines.

i know there were lots of people crabbing about trying to find a new
machine that didn't have AOL preloaded on it.

I haven't seen a new computer with AOL on it for some years. Even the CD
mailings have stopped.

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Maybe there was enough creabbuing going on that the mfj's quit it. I
haven't seen any cd mailings either, but usually and occasionally
there will be a bin full of them at the grocery store for free. The
last update I new of was AOL 9.0 which was jsut a glorified version of
8.0 which was a glorified verson of 7.0 etc. And I thought the 7 was
better than the 9!

But my wife has an old lappy which still has AOL 3.0 on it....

somewhere