Did you remove all the CompuServe files also. It is owned by AOL.
Also did you remove the Viewpoint files from your contol panel. It gets installed when you install AOL or Compuserve.
Keep on deleting
I submitted to our Mac Guru (Peter, mrmacfixit) for this one earlier on the Mac Forum because I am on a Mac G4 and running OSX app. Wanted to clear it up on a Mac first.
You may want to note something that is interesting in order to elinate AOL from your hard drive. AOL is also called America Online on the hard drive as well.
TWO NAMES for an APP!
Song about it??Can't get rid of one without the other?
Frank Sinatra?
Please read about the never ending AOL and how to be rid of it. Maybe!?
This was posted to the Mac Forum and Peter:
Peter, I am posting to the Mac Forum in place of Communications and messaging. Maybe you can figure this mess out for me and what was happening.
3pm today, called AOL Customer service and told Tina, from Bombay, India, that I wanted to cancel my AOL membership and that I had signed up with Adelphia.
Tina had another woman in back of her telling Tina what to say and do.
Tina wanted me to open Adelphia and confirm the service provider. Click on the bottom right hand corner of the screen and make sure it says AOL. (What the heck is going on here?)
I told Tina that I am not on the AOL screen, only Adelphia.
Tina and her backup told me I could still have AOL through Adelphia.
No thanks I said. After listening to this woman for another ten minutes I finally received the conformation that I was looking for. AOL will send a cancellation notice by mail to me. YES!!!!!
Thought that was the end of it. NOT!!!
6pm went on and started up my Mac computer. Screen came up?Welcome to AOL. Click here to activate your account again.
What the heck is going on here? I do not have AOL as a start-up screen.
Shut down with a restart. New screen: Welcome to AOL. Click here to activate your account.
Shut down and rebooted.
Same screen from Hell and AOL.
Went to my hard drive and trashed AOL from Applications. Rebooted my Mac.
New screen and header with AOL up and running with V5.0 with system OS9. Figure that one out for me.
Restarted a couple more times and tried preferences to switch to OSX. Could not get out of AOL and OS9.
After about another half an hour and deleting all of AOL files from my pref files and libraries, the last I had to delete was from my Apple location. Took a few times.
Peter, AOL from HELL. How did it happen? Why?
AOL wants to get back at me and give me a migraine headache?
Thanks,
-Kevin
AOL
AOL is notoriously difficult to get rid of and to unsubscribe from.
The best thing to do with it is to do a "Find" and search for everything, everywhere, that contains AOL.
Trash everything you find. You almost certainly have multiple copies of AOL on your machine. On your own admission, you have downloaded it at least four times in as many months.
Don't forget the OS 9 side of the house. It needs to go from there too.
Check the Start-Up section of your OS X account. It may have an AOL connected item in it. This would cause AOL to fire up on boot up. Are you sure it booted into OS 9, rather than booting into X and then immediately going to Classic? You can stop Classic at any time, from X, by going to the Prefs Pane/Classic and choosing Stop.
AOL did not do anything to your machine, they just sent the AOL Imps to annoy you because you want to stop feeding them money. If you have to speak with them again, do not bother telling them that you have switched carriers, just tell them you want it stopped.
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Posted by: mrmacfixit Moderator (see profile) - 09/13/2005 4:54 AM
Peter,
Thanks for your advice for the other half of the house (OS9).
Deleted and trashed
? Apple Menu items: AOL 5.0
? Recent applications: America Online
? Preferences: America Online
Went to find folders before today?s date and came up with the following:
? America Online V5.0 Guide
? AOL: 27 folders, trashed 26 of them
The only one left is owned by root: com.aol.net.ppp
Did a restart and rebuilt the desktop.
Hope that is the end of AOL and America Online on my Mac computer.
Thinking about how many folders I have trashed since yesterday is a guess on my part: Seventy-Five minimum.
AOL really was very hard to get rid of.
What is interesting to learn about is the fact there really are two sets of folders with different names set up for the Application:
One is called AOL. The second folder is called America Online.
Just wonder if there is a third hidden in my system? I hope not!!!
Never knew about two names until I started to write everything down for you. I hope my experience may help someone in the future from having the same problem I went through.
I wonder what the PC users are going through trying to trash AOL and America Online? Do they know about the two names?
I hope that Bob Proffitt is following your help, Peter.
I think that Bob will find our posts interesting.
Thanks Pete, and look forward to your help always.
-Kevin

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