On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:13:17 -0700 (PDT), Tim
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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

*wrote:

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

The CD mailings may have stopped because someone finally realized what
a drain they were on the worldwide supply of natural resources.