arrgghhh...what have I done and aol

[TVB]

MY GF needs AOL for some stuff relating to her work. It's a proprietary software thing or something. It makes no sense but it is what it is. I spent hours last night for her trying to figure out a way around it and it doesn't seem there is one, and no she doesn't work for aol, but does for one of their corporate partners and the access part has to do with accessing her scheduling stuff.

So, I download aol 9 or whatever number it is and it loaded in tons of junk which I would like to remove--except for what she needs to actually be able to access aol from my home.

What is the minimum aol stuff I need on here for her to access what she needs when she is here? Does it make a difference if she is on dialup and I am not?

The only time she will use AOL is for this scheduling stuff...no email (she uses gmail), no surfing (she uses firefox when here), and preferably no aol garbage beyond the sign-on page.

Can it be done with simply accessing aol through a browser like firefox and then logging on with her account name/password or do I really need that aol software I've mucked up my machine with? I distinctly recall telling her I am due for a reformat one of these days as I kept seeing all sorts of crap load in

Betsy
---this aol stuff is a trap, I think.

[Andilinks]

You have irreparably damaged yourself. You'll never be the same again, people will forever look at you differently.

I currently have 9.0 installed and don't notice any degradation (or is it just a general slowness, everything is always too slow for me).

I recently noticed that I had three versions of AOL installed having never removed the old after two upgrades. I removed two and did not notice any improvements.

I think you're making too much of the harm caused by an AOL installation.

Andi

[teach1st]

I had AOL 9.0 installed for quite a while. I just got rid of it. It didn't mess up my system as some earlier versions did. One thing I did do was disable all of the AOL startup stuff, including automatic services. I didn't notice that AOL behaved differently after I forbade it to start stuff up.