[ANDY 64]

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<font color='#0000FF'>Just RE installed AOL 8.0,,,, and i can log into YD , but soon as i click on a topic , i get the   PAGE can't be displayed  page , and crash,,,,,,( locking up ) & can't use mouse.

Haven't down anything different , just RE INSTALLED it ....

Andy

 

[Mary]

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<font color='#F52887'>You made that fundamental error Andy, you installed it in the first place, despite reformatting my home PC is still occasoinally reappears from when i made the same mistake several years ago

 

[Kate R]

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Quote[/b] (Andy the Commie 2 @ Feb. 18 2004,12:05)]Just RE installed AOL 8.0

 

 

Quote[/b] ]just RE INSTALLED it

AOL  

 

[Dr Stevil]

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It's not known as AO-Hell for nowt

Reformat your hard drive and use anything else but those f***ers

 

[Dominic]

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AOL - wav file

 

[Mark Chase]

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OK I own up I am the other UK user of AOL8

Its slow and unstable but atleast the free telephone help desk works well and they can usualy fix things.

ATB

Mark Chase

 

[laterontoday]

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Yep have same trouble to read a post you have to keep refreshing the page.  AOL is sh**e possibly, not without doubt is the slowest worst isp you can ever choose.  

My 13 yr lad can have a teen email addie and still get spammed with vigra and porn yet aol proudly boast of their parental controls, what a load of old b*****s and they dont give a t**s if you tell them either.

 

[Dominic]

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Freeserve broadband - online 24/7 and I didn't even have to install any software on my computer

 

[Sean]

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Get rid of it biggest hunk of junk I have ever seen would not let it within a 100 miles of my PC.  Get one of the other broadband offers as Dom suggested Freeserve, BT and now doing a 1meg link no.  But AOL

 

[torbaydiver]

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yep I used to use AOL and what a nightmare, I used to spend more time trying to get through on the helpline than I ever did on the Internet, quite often daily !
The most annoying thing is that it used to disconnect me in the middle of typing an e-mail and when I phoned the helpline they repeatedly told me that it doesn't do this when it so obviously did !
Telewest broadband now , no problems whatsoever certainly worth the extra couple of pounds a week.
broadband is the way forward  

 

[672]

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unfortunatly it seems people are having problems with aol,i wouldnt suppose the computer slowdown is nothing to do with your registry being choker -block with undelleted bits of programs .and as for the slow down same again its how you look after the computer im still yet to see a slow down but hey what do i know ive only been useing aol since version 4 and what we on now aol client 8 broadband

as regards to useing bt i wouldld rather have my air switched off at tghe hydrobox than go with an i.s.p that cuts you off after 2 hours stick wi aol

 

[ANDY 64]

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<font color='#0000FF'>FOUND THE PROBLEM .................. had bloody kiddy lock on ..

I have been using AOL for a couple of years now , and have found it to be one of the best .

 

[Seadart Mark]

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AOL.. big yuck.

But is you want to use them, may I suggest that when on YD use another browser to view the site and just use their dial up, as AOL browser can be a bit pants.

Other browsers to consider:

Opera
Mozilla
Netscape

Even the dreaded MicroSh#te is better than AOL browser.

MS Explorer

Mark

 

[parahandy]

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When I was doing Tech Support, for a certain well known ISP I was forever , getting customers ringing up having installed AOL for a free trial etc, wanting to rid their machine of it.  The time spent at a £1 a minute  trying to eradicate it was sorrowfull. Their browser's tends to take over your machine and of course make it as difficult as possible to connect to any other ISP.  

 

[John Holmes]

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Used AOL 6,7 and 8. 6 and 7 were on Windows ME, AOL8 is on XP - works fine, not had any problem at all. Did used to have some problems on ME with pages not displaying. Brother in law says AOL8 crashed his system (??) but as we're both using XP I think it was his set up rather than AOL 8.

Office computer has Freeola Broadband installed and that is the dogs bollocks! For home use though I'm happy with AOL8

 

[Paul Oliver]

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Hmm

Been on AOL 6 then 8 for ages, does lots of strange stuff but i think a lot is my clapped out 'puter.

Ho Hum

Paul