Mark,

AOL's software installation routine takes over the PC and makes whatever
changes it needs regardless of what the owner may want the PC to do.

On a daily basis, AOL downloads tons temp files and images for its
advertising, and news tidbits, and the what's new items, etc. etc.  ----
and never deletes any of them.

Back in the days before gigabyte hard drives, I used to make a lot of easy
money just going in and cleaning out the AOL directories when disks filled
up.  Now that we have multi-gig drives, the problem has just been hidden
(sigh.... all that easy money gone <evil grin>)

I don't have a lot of experience with AOL4.x, but from what I have seen,
they have not changed the overall scheme at all.  It still takes over the
PC and does what it pleases.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rode <[log in to unmask]>


>I haven't had a AOL account since before the Web existed.  My customer
>wants to install it on her PC and I want to know what I will be dealing
>with.

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