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Trash AOL messenger

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by mbertel

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Currently I am deployed to bosnia for military duties. I am using a Dell p233 using NT 4.0 as the OS. I know that there is way to permently wipe out AOL messenger of the PC. Could someone please give me instructions on how to get rid of this messenger service for ever. Thank you for your help.

Markus R Bertel

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by Former member

As a former ISC for the Marine Corps I can tell you flat out that you just may end up falling on your sword. When you remove AOL junk (which was probably an unauthorized installation due to security issues) from your NT workstation it will remove your network connection information and you will end up having to call your network people and have them recreate the connection. Good luck, I hope that AOL didn't open a security hole in your unit's network.

by curacao_dejavu

locate the folder where AOL messenger is installed and delete the entire content.
(easy).
The following involves the registry so you have to be carefull with that.
go to start, run and type in regedit.
this will launch the registry editor.
thenon the menu choosee edit, find and search then on AOL and delete those keys.

You can always export the keys so you have a backup of the key before you delete it.

regards,

Leopold

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