Any ideas on how to switch off AOL?

Jeneba

OK, My Tech-Minded MFP's.... Need your help - I am a complete techno-peasant... I hate to admit it, but I am still using AOL as my browser & have 3 email addresses with it for various reasons. It has been out of loyalty - AOL stayed up all through 9/11 & it was the only way my family knew I was alive... But - enough is enough! Toooooo many technical glitches. I think I get free email addresses even if I no longer use AOL browser - how do I switch out of this? Thank youuuuuuu!

WingMan380

You probably have a local internet service provider in your area or most of the cell phone companies have internet options. You can get an email address from gmail and probably import your AOL address book into gmail.

Jeneba

Thanks! I will bet my cable company can help me.

_HeathBar_

Wow, I haven't thought about AOL in years.

Jeneba

Yup. Time to go! What I am worried about are all those emails I have stored on AOL. I wonder if they disappear if I still keep the AOL email addresses?????

Saruman_w

I'm surprised they still exist.. Yea, I would research some prominent broadband service providers in your area and get that setup.

What I am worried about are all those emails I have stored on AOL. I wonder if they disappear if I still keep the AOL email addresses?????

You could probably still access that email by going to www.aol.com and signing in with your past credentials.

Pollywog39

Yup. Time to go! What I am worried about are all those emails I have stored on AOL. I wonder if they disappear if I still keep the AOL email addresses?????

Say you switch to Charter or Mediacom, or any other internet provider. Your AOL account and email will probably not be available to you any longer......................however, you COULD create a Yahoo or Gmail account (which isn't based on an internet provider, but is a web-based email program), and if you have particular emails you want to save, you can FORWARD them to your new Yahoo mail account, and they'll be there forever!!

Jeneba

Thanks, Polly! This is exactly what I needed to know!

Nerple

Just make sure and double check that your account is cancelled when you leave. I did one of those free 100 hour or whatever trials back in 2001 while I waited for Comcast to hook up my internet. Didn't even use half of the alotted free time, but somehow AOL thought they could start charding me for it. Years later I get a letter from a collection agency saying I owed AOL like 4 years worth of subscrioptions. Though I got it settled, and years later a different collection agency sent me a letter. Took about a week to get it finally settled, and that's only because I finally got on the phone with someone at AOL that took the time to look into the account and saw I only logged in over a 2 week time frame and was well under the allowed free hours.

I hate that company.

GasMasterFlash

First, disconnect your modem.

roachhaley

Hi there

A while back I tried to access some emails from my email account I had when I was about 13 years old. You can still log onto your email account through a browser, but AOL stores the actual emails on your computer, so it can't retrieve them. Once you uninstall AOL, the emails are gone, as far as I know. There might be a way to locate them on your computer before you uninstall.

budhandy

First, disconnect your modem.

that had me rollin laughing my *kitten*. Cals burned=100000000

sortin

You can simply switch to being a free user, without any internet service from them. You keep your AOL email address, and I imagine you could still open anything you've saved locally on your PC. Any new/unread email will surely be on their servers.

I haven't had AOL internet access in...10+ years. But I've always had an email address with them, I still have it.

Now I don't know how AOL's emails are stored specifically...unread email is obviously on their servers, but old emails may be stored on your PC. You can of course check by logging into aol.com and accessing your email from there, and see what all shows in your saved emails, etc.

Nerple...100 free hours isn't over an unlimited time period...it's for 1 month, up to 100 hours. But yes, AOL sucks and is of no use anymore...yet somehow they still persist.

Jeneba

Thanks Everyone! I will make sure to disconect that phone line first..... Hahahahahahahahaha!

dinosnopro

this thread made me think of the dial up tones when getting on the internet.......and this.

christine24t

I'm not sure if you mean you are using just the AOL browser or AOL is your internet company. If it's just your browser, you can download IE or Google Chrome, for example, and log in via aol.com for your email.

likearadiowave

I use chrome. And i've tried basically all of them.

kristy6ward

I sitll have AOL as my email provider...they give free email addresses. So even if you get rid of aol as your service provider and switch to cable you can still use your addresses. Just access them through AOL.com

ScottyNoHotty

I have a bunch of old AOL and Netscape CD's that I received in the mail....you can have them all...