AOL on XP

[Dan Morgan]

Hi there,

I have heard that AOL 6 will work but not brilliantly on XP and that AOL 7 has full compatiblity with it.

I am planing to install XP but being living in the UK I havent got access to AOL 7 as it is not available yet as far as I know.

Is anyone running AOL 6 on XP? If so are you having any problems? Also does anyone know when AOL 7 will be available for on UK release?

Thanks, Glen

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also if you select the clean install option is this a way of formatting your hard drive without having the bother of actually doing before you install a new OS?
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[Dan Morgan]

Hmmmm, I have looked on various articles and apparantly there was an agreement that the AOL 6 Client would be bundled with XP anyway?

Anyone know anything, I want to install it when I get home from work but dont want to if it means I cant use AOL to connect? Please

[DHarrison]

How come you're in such a hurry to jump on the XP bandwagon? Do you have trouble with your current Windoze installation or do you just like being on the bleeding edge?

[Michel V]

I'm running AOL 6 on XP just fine. The program asked me to download a special version of it, specially tuned for XP, though.

[Renegade]

Originally posted by glenplake
Hmmmm, I have looked on various articles and apparantly there was an agreement that the AOL 6 Client would be bundled with XP anyway?

Whatchu smokin? WHy would MS place a competitors program on WIndows? naw, they would bundle it with MSN before AOL

Dunno about compatibility. Its kinda a wait-and-see when it comes to XP

[Dan Morgan]

Originally posted by Renegade


Whatchu smokin? WHy would MS place a competitors program on WIndows? naw, they would bundle it with MSN before AOL

Dunno about compatibility. Its kinda a wait-and-see when it comes to XP

What am I smoking???? :-) try this on for size

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/ne...765321,00.html

OK, I know talks fell through but I hadnt read that article at that point.

Originally posted by DHarrison

How come you're in such a hurry to jump on the XP bandwagon? Do you have trouble with your current Windoze installation or do you just like being on the bleeding edge?

I am just sick of Windows versions that run over DOS and and I was offered a free copy (no not a Dodgy one) so I thought why not.

Originally posted by Shin Ma

I'm running AOL 6 on XP just fine. The program asked me to download a special version of it, specially tuned for XP, though.

Yeah thanks Shin I contacted them and they are sending me a revised version of 6 thatll work (cos I cant connect to let it update this one )

[Dan Morgan]

Just a little update in case anyone is having the same trouble!

I got my new XP compliant disc and installed it but Guess what? Same problem.

So tried a simple dial up connection and this didnt work so I got a new modem and that has solved the problem.

It doesnt explain how my old modem could dial up through Hyper Terminal but it was probably because it was only a voice call I had success with.