Disabling Use of AOL

[Curtis]

Recently, someone installed Aol onto my Pc with Windows
XP Home as the OS. I want to disable usage of Aol since
for the life of me, I cannot fully erase or uninstall its
components. Everytime I think I've fully cleaned my PC of
the program, I find out that there are hidden program
files or components that I can't erase. Can someone help
me with this?

Thank You,
Curtis

[Unknown]

Have you edited the registry? Do a find 'AOL' in the registry and delete the
items.
"Curtis" > wrote in message
...
> Recently, someone installed Aol onto my Pc with Windows
> XP Home as the OS. I want to disable usage of Aol since
> for the life of me, I cannot fully erase or uninstall its
> components. Everytime I think I've fully cleaned my PC of
> the program, I find out that there are hidden program
> files or components that I can't erase. Can someone help
> me with this?
>
> Thank You,
> Curtis

[NoNoBadDog!]

Unless you have a restore point from before the installation, there is no
way to uninstall everything. There are entries made in the registry that do
not have AOL in them, and it drops files all over your HDD, in windows and
windows/system32. If it were me, I would bite the bullet and back up what I
needed and do a fresh install.
IMHO AOL is evil!

Bobby

"Curtis" > wrote in message
...
> Recently, someone installed Aol onto my Pc with Windows
> XP Home as the OS. I want to disable usage of Aol since
> for the life of me, I cannot fully erase or uninstall its
> components. Everytime I think I've fully cleaned my PC of
> the program, I find out that there are hidden program
> files or components that I can't erase. Can someone help
> me with this?
>
> Thank You,
> Curtis

[Arnold]

A friend of mine had this exact problem - I tried to help him remove all AOL
references - but the registry was full of them (AOL really "takes over" your
computer !!) He finally had to take it to a computer service expert, who
got rid of all the AOL stuff - but it cost $100 !!! I agree that AOL is
evil.

"NoNoBadDog!" > wrote in message
...
> Unless you have a restore point from before the installation, there is no
> way to uninstall everything. There are entries made in the registry that
do
> not have AOL in them, and it drops files all over your HDD, in windows and
> windows/system32. If it were me, I would bite the bullet and back up what
I
> needed and do a fresh install.
> IMHO AOL is evil!
>
> Bobby
>
> "Curtis" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Recently, someone installed Aol onto my Pc with Windows
> > XP Home as the OS. I want to disable usage of Aol since
> > for the life of me, I cannot fully erase or uninstall its
> > components. Everytime I think I've fully cleaned my PC of
> > the program, I find out that there are hidden program
> > files or components that I can't erase. Can someone help
> > me with this?
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Curtis
>
>

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Sadly, the only practical way I've ever found to _completely_
remove AOL from an operating system is to format the hard drive and
perform a clean installation. It takes a lot less time than
manually removing/replacing all of the Windows system files that AOL
replaces with their own versions and the hundreds of registry entries.


Bruce Chambers

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"Curtis" > wrote in message
...
> Recently, someone installed Aol onto my Pc with Windows
> XP Home as the OS. I want to disable usage of Aol since
> for the life of me, I cannot fully erase or uninstall its
> components. Everytime I think I've fully cleaned my PC of
> the program, I find out that there are hidden program
> files or components that I can't erase. Can someone help
> me with this?
>
> Thank You,
> Curtis