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Old 09-29-2007   #1 (permalink)
Riverman812


 
 

Connecting to AOL & Vista

I am having trouble connecting to AOL. This only happens for one of the four
user accounts on my desktop. Of the four two are administrators and two are
standard users. The user that is having the difficulty is the second
administrator. What happens is that she can sign on the as soon as you hear
the "Welcome" AOL freezes up. After about 10 to 15 seconds it will boot
itself off and then try to reconect. This continues until I manually close
the auto re-log on of AOL. I have re-installed AOL VR multiple times to no
avail and AOL's support has been useless. I would just get rid of it and
access my AOL through Internet Explorer but my wife prefers AOL. Any thoughts
or suggestions?

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Old 09-29-2007   #2 (permalink)
Greg


 
 

Re: Connecting to AOL & Vista

I don't exactly know for certain but it may be because there are 2
Administrator accounts; I'm no expert but is it possible that the computer
isn't powerful enough, or it's just not meant to have 2 Administrator
accounts? A possible solution might be to delete the second Administrator
account then shut down and then reboot.

"Riverman812" <Riverman812@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am having trouble connecting to AOL. This only happens for one of the
>four
> user accounts on my desktop. Of the four two are administrators and two
> are
> standard users. The user that is having the difficulty is the second
> administrator. What happens is that she can sign on the as soon as you
> hear
> the "Welcome" AOL freezes up. After about 10 to 15 seconds it will boot
> itself off and then try to reconect. This continues until I manually close
> the auto re-log on of AOL. I have re-installed AOL VR multiple times to no
> avail and AOL's support has been useless. I would just get rid of it and
> access my AOL through Internet Explorer but my wife prefers AOL. Any
> thoughts
> or suggestions?
My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 09-29-2007   #3 (permalink)
Paul Randall


 
 

Re: Connecting to AOL & Vista


"Riverman812" <Riverman812@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:949E1139-3B14-4E22-B596-86DA3636D6F1@xxxxxx
Quote:

>I am having trouble connecting to AOL. This only happens for one of the
>four
> user accounts on my desktop. Of the four two are administrators and two
> are
> standard users. The user that is having the difficulty is the second
> administrator. What happens is that she can sign on the as soon as you
> hear
> the "Welcome" AOL freezes up. After about 10 to 15 seconds it will boot
> itself off and then try to reconect. This continues until I manually close
> the auto re-log on of AOL. I have re-installed AOL VR multiple times to no
> avail and AOL's support has been useless. I would just get rid of it and
> access my AOL through Internet Explorer but my wife prefers AOL. Any
> thoughts
> or suggestions?
You might try creating another admin account and see if AOL works properly
there. It is sometimes easier to create a new account than to fix an
existing account, and get rid of the bad one when you have the new one set
up as you like it. When done, I think you can rename the account to
whatever you want, but you may not be able to rename the underlying folders.
Hopefully someone will confirm or refute this.

-Paul Randall


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Old 09-29-2007   #4 (permalink)
Riverman812


 
 

Re: Connecting to AOL & Vista

He y thanks Greg, it worked! I don't know why Vista/AOL has a problem with
having more than one Admin, XP didn't but it did solve the problem. It's nice
to see that someone out there knows how to try and help people instead of
espousing their own personal agendas. Keep up the good work!!

"Greg" wrote:
Quote:

> I don't exactly know for certain but it may be because there are 2
> Administrator accounts; I'm no expert but is it possible that the computer
> isn't powerful enough, or it's just not meant to have 2 Administrator
> accounts? A possible solution might be to delete the second Administrator
> account then shut down and then reboot.
>
> "Riverman812" <Riverman812@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:949E1139-3B14-4E22-B596-86DA3636D6F1@xxxxxx
Quote:

> >I am having trouble connecting to AOL. This only happens for one of the
> >four
> > user accounts on my desktop. Of the four two are administrators and two
> > are
> > standard users. The user that is having the difficulty is the second
> > administrator. What happens is that she can sign on the as soon as you
> > hear
> > the "Welcome" AOL freezes up. After about 10 to 15 seconds it will boot
> > itself off and then try to reconect. This continues until I manually close
> > the auto re-log on of AOL. I have re-installed AOL VR multiple times to no
> > avail and AOL's support has been useless. I would just get rid of it and
> > access my AOL through Internet Explorer but my wife prefers AOL. Any
> > thoughts
> > or suggestions?
>
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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