Installing software(AOL) into single User account

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I have XP pro and DSL connection (verizon). I installed AOL for my dauther while in my own admin acccount and had lots of problems. Then I uninstalled. Now I would like to install it so that is shows up only in her user account and does not affect my own use of computer and internet. Is this possible? How? I know software is on the hard drive but can i be insulated from it. Any other comments about AOL are welcome
Thanks, Denise

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's not possible to isolate AOL software in this manner. AOL
installations are very intrusive and needlessly replace a great many
Windows system files.

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.

You'd do much better using a real Internet Service Provider, as
opposed to AOL. AOL is an on-line content provider that ignores
international Internetworking standards in favor of its own
proprietary products, and has deliberately made its connection
software incompatible with both WinXP's built-in firewall and WinXP's
Internet Connection Sharing feature. AOL's proprietary connection
applet is deliberately designed to preclude your setting/adjusting any
of its properties, to include enabling/disabling WinXP's ICF and ICS.


Bruce Chambers

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