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AOL = Scum
they have so many things wrong with them and the amount of machines i get in with AOL problems you wouldnt believe.
a) it conflicts BAD with so many programs, some deliberate and some not (ie use yahoo messenger and msn messenger with aol and sometimes great other times it hacks the shit out of both
b) the staff are incompetent and clueless
c) they will try and charge you up to a year after you cancelled the service and this is not a freak occurence within a year i have had at least 10 customers with this problem and thats alot id say.
d) Aol isnt particularly fast anyway and broadband kicks the living crud out of it anyway
e) Aol takes over your machine, the only way to truly remove it is to manually edit the registry and other files it sticks on your machines and most of the time thats simply not worth the hassle plus let someone loose in the registry and you can screw the machine up anyway
f) when you try and quit out of it the damn program repeatedly asks if you want to leave, yes i want to leave thats why i already clicked it twice damnit!
not quite as bad as freeserve that goes one step further and writes itself into the windows code so the only way to remove it is by a complete wipe! but freeserve is uk based only i think.
problem with aol is if your a complete newbie user then its great, you dont have many programs installed to conflict and it helps you every step so the majority of clueless users can get on with it but for anyone else forget it [img]smile.gif[/img]
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