Re: aol locks up 2 computers

steve

AOL software is proprietary and unfortunately you will have to live with it. If you would like to have normal working access with your computers then I suggest that you remove your AOL software and change to a different ISP(Internet service provider). To remove AOL completely from your system involves a complete clean re-install since that software has taken over most if not all of your Windows system.

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"watercress_soup" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eeo0rjMYHHA.4440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hello. this is a very weird, and slightly long, problem. hope someone can
help.

I am in the UK, I have 2 computers, 1 laptop and 1 desktop. both running on
a BT phone line with aol as the broadband (512Kbps) isp. both connect
wirelessly to a belkin modem/router (b/g MIMO) using a notebook adapter and
a usb adapter respectively, (both b/g MIMO). both run win xp; laptop pro,
desktop home.

basically when anything other than the aol software tries to use the
internet the whole computer locks up. i.e. no mouse input or ctrlaltdel, no
autorestart. just frozen. this happens on both machines. usually just as it
finds a website the computer locks up. occasionally it will freeze after a
few seconds... the aol software works fine, no lock ups and generally a good
connection.

I then have to manually restart to get access to the computer again.

I have even moved the laptop, router and the notebook adapter, up the road
to another house running a bt phone line with bt as isp. the laptop,
unsurprisingly, worked perfectly.

I even replaced the router. so i have ruled out the hardware as the problem,
as it works fine on another phone line. the laptop works fine through
another phone line.

both machines lock up, which must be impossible? so it must be the phone
line somehow crashing the computers? or, my bet is placed firmly on aol...

but how could aol broadband manage to lock up 2 computers through a router
and wireless adapters??

does it realise that windows or a third party program tries to use the
internet and punishes the machine by locking it up?

I have reset the winsock. reinstalled the belkin hardware. the only thing I
haven't done is uninstall the aol software...

I really hope that someone might have some ideas...

steve

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