How to remove AOL uninstaller

[Stephen Ford]

I have uninstalled all the AOL apps from my Vista PC but the Uninstaller
remains. The system bar also contains an AOL connection icon.

How do I remove the unistaller and the icon?

 

[Stephen Ford]

Ooops - didn't realise AIM is part of AOL. Just removed that too but the
icon and Uninstaller remain

 

[BillyBob]

Stephen,

How did you "uninstalled all the AOL apps from the Vista PC" ? Did you
uninstall through 'Programs and Features', uninstall using the AOL
uninstaller or did you simply delete the folder that held the program files
?

This is not a Vista problem but an AOL problem. I would suggest contacting
AOL.

BB

 

[Mark Adams]

I have uninstalled all the AOL apps from my Vista PC but the Uninstaller
remains. The system bar also contains an AOL connection icon.

How do I remove the unistaller and the icon?

You might try these:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314481

This was written for XP but probably works in Vista as well.

Unbrand Internet Explorer:

http://www.dougknox.com/utility/scripts_desc/unbrand.htm

 

[Kevin John Panzke]

You were using AOL?

Not using Chinese worker to help with AOL. Chinese worker does not steal
job from USA. Chinese worker add MSG to Sweet and Sour Pork.

You're beyond help.

Stan is beyond help.

 

[Stephen Ford]

A mate asked me to sort out his new Compaq laptop; well yes "new" as in
"never switched on" but "not new" as in bought would you believe, in 2008.
It took about 24hrs to get up to date with MS Update but it seems nicely
stable now.

I do quite well with PC configuration and like a nice simple setup - a clear
desktop, organised folders, sensible QuickLaunch and StartMenu entries and
only tried and tested utilities... but this came with AOL loaded... Eeek!!

I tried AOL in about 1998-ish (when I was a lot less wise) and had a hell of
a lot of trouble - it took over the PC. It was necessary to reinstalled the
OS to get back control.

On this laptop I used the Uninstaller to remove AOL (internet services [my
description]) and AIM - two apps in total, but the Uninstaller remains
resolutely in place as does the System Tray entry. I've not tried anything
else yet but would like to remove AOL before returning the laptop to its
owner.

 

[Stephen Ford]

Thanks I am looking at this now...

You might try these:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314481

This was written for XP but probably works in Vista as well.

Unbrand Internet Explorer:

http://www.dougknox.com/utility/scripts_desc/unbrand.htm

 

[Stephen Ford]

I share your frustration but sadly the expression of your frustration doen't
help me achieve an AOL-free PC. You would move closer to your life aims by
providing a web page to the community with the utimate "how to remove AOL"
instructions. You win, I win, we all win...
Good luck

 

[Stephen Ford]

Tried something else...
Ran msconfig
Disabled all AOL services and startup entries
Enabled safe mode boot
Rebooted > entered safe mode
Conrtol Panel > Progs&features > uninstalled AOL uninstaller > searched for
old AOL (this is 2nd time) > removed AOL9.x(? for 2nd time!) > rebooted
normal startup > AOL uninstaller now gone (harray!) searched for an deleted
all other AOL files/folders (only shortcuts and empty folders left) > DONE!
No AOL Uninstaller
No system tray icon
.... aaaah... peace.....

OK, and the next most difficult - how to fix women... maybe not...

 

[Stephen Ford]

....and...
the laptop (Compaq Presario F700) goes like a bomb now. It's almost too
quick for me to keep up with .

Task manager appears instantly instead of a (yawn...) long wait

Quiescent CPU usage is around 3% instead of 50%

Good riddance AOL...

 

[Bruce Chambers]

A mate asked me to sort out his new Compaq laptop; well yes "new" as in
"never switched on" but "not new" as in bought would you believe, in 2008.
It took about 24hrs to get up to date with MS Update but it seems nicely
stable now.

I do quite well with PC configuration and like a nice simple setup - a clear
desktop, organised folders, sensible QuickLaunch and StartMenu entries and
only tried and tested utilities... but this came with AOL loaded... Eeek!!

I tried AOL in about 1998-ish (when I was a lot less wise) and had a hell of
a lot of trouble - it took over the PC. It was necessary to reinstalled the
OS to get back control.

On this laptop I used the Uninstaller to remove AOL (internet services [my
description]) and AIM - two apps in total, but the Uninstaller remains
resolutely in place as does the System Tray entry. I've not tried anything
else yet but would like to remove AOL before returning the laptop to its
owner.

I'm afraid you'll need to contact AOL's tech support for resolution
of problems with -- or caused by -- their product; Microsoft has no
control over AOL's product quality, or lack thereof. You best course
of action would be to remove it.

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. I absolutely loathe having to resort to a hard
drive format to fix what should be a relatively minor issue, but 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 unnecessary registry entries.


--

Bruce Chambers

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~ Denis Diderot

 

[Peter Foldes]

Stephen

To remove the AOL uninstaller and all remaining remnants of AOL, you will need to do
a clean reformat of your system. Sadly that is the one and only way to get
everything AOL off of your computer.

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Peter

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[Stephen Ford]

A mate asked me to sort out his new Compaq laptop; well yes "new" as in
"never switched on" but "not new" as in bought would you believe, in
2008. It took about 24hrs to get up to date with MS Update but it seems
nicely stable now.

I do quite well with PC configuration and like a nice simple setup - a
clear desktop, organised folders, sensible QuickLaunch and StartMenu
entries and only tried and tested utilities... but this came with AOL
loaded... Eeek!!

I tried AOL in about 1998-ish (when I was a lot less wise) and had a hell
of a lot of trouble - it took over the PC. It was necessary to
reinstalled the OS to get back control.

On this laptop I used the Uninstaller to remove AOL (internet services
[my description]) and AIM - two apps in total, but the Uninstaller
remains resolutely in place as does the System Tray entry. I've not tried
anything else yet but would like to remove AOL before returning the
laptop to its owner.

I'm afraid you'll need to contact AOL's tech support for resolution of
problems with -- or caused by -- their product; Microsoft has no control
over AOL's product quality, or lack thereof. You best course of action
would be to remove it.

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. I absolutely loathe having to resort to a hard drive format
to fix what should be a relatively minor issue, but 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 unnecessary
registry entries.

Bruce Chambers

I will warn the owner that a rebuild may be necessary but at the moment the
laptop seems fairly sound. I looked at the registry and it seems that the
junk can be left in place without undue issue. So far so good. Thanks for
all the comments.
SF