Aol invaded my system

[FallenPaladin 0]

I know that thread doesn`t really fit into the offtopic forum, but I don`t know where to ask else. You simply get the best answers here, and I sure don`t want to ask in an AOL forum

It`s as follows. Currently I`m using AOL as internet-provider. I have to wait for DSL until the 49th week and wanted to simply go online by t-online by call, but the german Telekom is too stupid to just send me my account data. Would`ve been so easy: 1. t-online by call and then switch by online trigger to DSL, because I allready have all the hardware installed in my room, but well...

So I decided to use AOL in the time before I get my t-online by call account. AOL installed a lot of software and I think I`ll have to format my HDD to get it clean of all this stuff. The installed software isn`t easy to be overseen. And since I have it on my HDD I encounter more lockups and crashes in my programs then ever before, besides that AOL is terribly slow. My fastest ping in an online-shooter was 140-150 so far, that means unplayable.

My main question is:

Does AOL corrupt your windows registry and system?

Please mods wait with closing until I got some answers.  

[Placebo 28]

Apparently AOL can be rather unpleasant to remove, but something like regcleaner should help you with that, or better yet use jv16 PowerTools

[FallenPaladin 0]

Thanks, placebo

But even if I use regclean.exe I have to remove program-related stuff in the registry. Guess I`ll try your link then. Does someone know it AOL could be the cause of my crashes?

[Placebo 28]

In theory just use jv16, do a registry search for AOL and delete everything it finds

[Renagade 0]

Then get a pair of scissors and make a shruiken out of the GAY-O-L cd and launch it at pedestrians

[FallenPaladin 0]

LOL Here you get them for free in hundreds, would be lots of ammo

Placebo, the jv16 tool is great!!

[Sadico 1]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Then get a pair of scissors and make a shruiken out of the GAY-O-L cd and launch it at pedestrians <span id='postcolor'>

Nah, just burn the damn thing

[acidcrash 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FallenPaladin @ Nov. 11 2002,21:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">LOL Here you get them for free in hundreds, would be lots of ammo  

Placebo, the jv16 tool is great!!<span id='postcolor'>

lol funny yuo should say that, im sure i read somewhere the other week that some guy was going to drop all the AOL CD's he'd ever got thru the post...reportedly over a million...outside Time warner or whoever owns AOLs headquaters

pointless info brought to you by acidcrash

[Cloney 0]

150 is not a bad ping... If you think so you are terribly spoiled. I get around 200 in OFP on my cable connection in the heat of the action.

[FallenPaladin 0]

Well I have real timejumps in my connection!!

E.g. in UT2003 I wanted to ran up some stairs. So I ran towards them, suddenly I`m set back 10 meters and I had to ran again, was set back and so on. Sometimes I even get stuck on a corner of a wall or I run against it two or three times until I can make a clear pass. Because of that I quit MP and wait until I get my DSL.

A friend saw me playing and said he got headache from viewing only

[Sadico 1]

I get 250-150 ping usually on my 256k adsl. It's not unplayable.

[FallenPaladin 0]

Then are these moments when I`m set back and around related to something else than ping.

I hate AOL even more

[Placebo 28]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FallenPaladin @ Nov. 11 2002,21:55)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Placebo, the jv16 tool is great!!<span id='postcolor'>

Yup and it's Finnish to boot