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There are many dialup ISPs out there and all you want is a means to connect? Try PeoplePC.com or some other dial up, but not AOL! And save money. Better still, find out what your local cable company has to offer.
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I recently purchased my "dream" machine, a Dell fully-loaded high speed (for gaming, albeit old time: Unreal, Quake) machine. The problem is that it came packaged with AOL 9.0. I'd previously used 6.0 on an older machine and had relatively few problems with that version. 9.0 seems to do one of two things: I'm either knocked offline in the middle of a keystroke or at the point of exit, yet another item is being downloaded. I'm concerned about the overwriting of shared files, as the machine is clean (Norton 2005) and working well so far. Is there a way that I can determine if shared files necessary for the operation of other applications are being affected by these downloads?
Should this be a concern at all? Any response would be appreciated.

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