Topic: AOL Hell

[Simon]

A friend has tried to install a 'free trial' of AOL on their old ME machine.    This is all a bit garbled, but from what I can gather, they have installed the CD, but can't get a connection up and running.  There is no icon in Network Connections (or whatever the equivalent is in ME), and all they have are two icons on their desktop, which, when clicked, only offer to reboot.

Any ideas?

[Tony]

they need to do two things, and in this order, firstly they will need to do a complete uninstall of AOL. Then before rebooting, they will need to right click on the CD-Rom icon on the Desktop [ if they have'nt got one they bloody well should have] then select the "eject" option, remove the AOL CD and then
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[Michelle]

:lol that was helpful tony !

I have AOL on ME and I have no problems, Have they tried uninstalling and reinstalling? Doesn't sound like its installed correctly does it.

I have two icons in dialup networking. But you go in through the Aol package which comes up on your desktop and the taskbar.

[Simon]

Problem solved, following Tony's advice.  

[Adept]

Tony

Couldn't have put it better myself   :funny: