Troubles installing AOL for a client…
Comments(0) A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to reinstall windows for a client of mine and reinstall all of the applications that she used. One of the applications in the list was AOL 9.0 - I cringed at that thought, but the client asked for it.
I thought, this should be easy, just go to AOL.com and click download. Not so.
Every where I turned, I was asked for a username and password (which I did not have) and could not proceed before supplying one. When I found the link for downloading AOL, I noticed that it was only 300k– pretty small for AOL, eh? It turns out that the file AOLDNLD.exe is only a downloader program that requires an active internet connection to install. Fine, this should still be easy- just connect the client’s computer to my Ethernet network and download the software from there. One trouble was that my client’s computer did not have an Ethernet card. Read more »
