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How right you are, Bruce! Over the years, I have learned that early in the
troubleshooting phase it is prudent to ask if AOL is installed on the
computer in question. AOL is, in my opinion, one of the worst pieces of
software ever forced upon the consumer market. I urge anyone and everyone
who will take the time to listen to stay as far away for AOL as is possible.
I too have learned that the best choice, indeed the only choice, is a format
and reinstall of the appropriate OS.
Bobby
"Bruce Chambers" <bruce_a_chambers@h0tmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings --
>
> 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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http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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> You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
> having both at once. - RAH
>
>
> "Russ" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:32d401c470ff$860c7030$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> When these programs don't appear in the Add/Remove folder
>> in the Control Panel, how, or is it possible to remove
>> them and all of their components?
>
>
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