A few years ago, they said "do you take this AOL to be your lawfully embedded software?", and you said "I do". Poor choice of words, I guess.
I don't have an answer for you, but I'd like to hear how that happened myself.
Just be glad there were no children.
Lampie
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

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