"out" of AOL, just uninstalling it doesn't clean it from
your system. AOL leaves dozens of remnants all over your
harddrive in Prefetch and your Registry. Go to
Start/Search/files and folders and type AOL and click
Search. You can delete all of them if you have no
inkling of returning. Also, edit your Registry, by
typing REGEDIT in Start/Run and click Find, then type AOL
and you'll find dozens of references to AOL. You can
also delete them, but be VERY careful.
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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