changing back AOL 5.0

[Carl Price]

As everyone knows AOL 5.0 and later has been called the "Upgrade of Death" because it takes over your Dial Up Networking when installed. (if you don't know go to
http://www.inwave.com/newinwave/aol.html ). Until recently we have been reinstalling win 98 back over the top to change these files back (AOL doesn't have to have them to work, it wants them only to control your computer). Recently I tried running SFC with a copy of win98 on my hd and letting it deal with the problem and it worked fine. It changes back the files that AOL changes without have to do all the extra work.

[PMich]

I have seen this, too. It seems that AOL does take control of your dialup networking. I ran into real problems with this when I got my new laptop. I have found that rather than reinstall the OS, you can uninstall and reinstall AOL. In other words, it seems that AOL prevents further dialups once it is installed but didn't seem to take over any existing dialup settings. I can't believe I just admitted to using AOL :( Truthfully, I am only on because my wife feels that we have to be. I guess if I want that new mobo and CPU then I better listen to her.