Does any body have any tips on stopping aol 6.0 crashing.Nealy every time you on the net you get an ilegal operation window.
thanks

aol is the bane of my life at work

really the best bet is to uninstall it and make a manual dun connection

Quote: gsteve said on 1 August 2002 at 17:28:15 aol is the bane of my life at work really the best bet is to uninstall it and make a manual dun connection

Dont whant to sound stupid but how do you do a manual dun connection?

no problem

you need to find dial up networking either in my computer or the control panel and then select make a new connection.

the info you need is the telephone number that you dial and the username and password and that way you dont need the aol disk

The thing is D. you can have a choice of up to four phone No.s with AOL. If one is busy, it will dial, - say five times, - then just choose the next one.
I really think that the problem is at AOL's end, it started about a month ago, coinciding with my installing XP, so I thought it was my settings. It throws up the "main module, - error report to M/soft" box, then shuts down AOL.
as I am dual-booting with Win 98se, I eventually went back to that O/S for internet access, but it throws up "illegal ops" on that O/S now, and that was solid a month ago.
Bandwidth is very restricted too, downloads down to 3Kbs/sec. at times, yet if you try it after 1 am. all the problems disappear, no crashes, and back to 5.0 Kbs/sec download speeds.
The problems ironically coincided with AOL putting their monthly subs up to £15-99. which has finally decided me to sign up for ADSL broadband with Plusnet for £20-99 per month. - Just waiting for BT to test and enable the line.
Alan.

You are supposed to use the phone No.s designated to your area, but I used to trawl their access numbers untill I found one that was not so busy, and would give me fast access and max. bandwidth. I had a Yorkshire number a while ago that was really good, but after a few weeks, they cut that number off, and force you to select new ones again, - Trouble is, they all seem slow now.
Alan.

Nearly forgot, the most reliable version of AOL is Version 5.0 but you can only install it on Win 98se. versions 6.0 and 7.0 are flakey but are the only ones you can install on Win 2000/XP.

I despaired of AOL for reasons of poor connectivity. FreeServe was a much better dial-up ISP and £2/month cheaper.

Im with BT, and while in the past it has been very slow, its now been very good for the last year or so, just looked at connection and at the moment its 40bps

AOL urrr send shivers down my spine, used one of those 100 free hours cds while waiting to join cable about 4-5 years ago, and i canceled it just before the time was up, the Fu£$krs sent me a bill for 260 quid, i was straight on the phone and gave them hell, they gave me some BS about going over the time i ended up paying about 1.50p. I never went back to them i hate it as much as i do Microsoft