How do i cancel out of AOL and keep my family's individual AIM screen names?
101524
thats simple, you shouldnt lose aim when you go to another isp. ifso just re download aim
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Click on Account Settings --> around the top of the "My Account Settings" box you'll see a "Cancel Account"
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You can go to aim.com and mouse over "fun with aim" and click on "Buddy Info Page" on the drop down menu. Sign in. Then you can enter a screen name under "scan buddies for".
53067
Well the simplest way is to sign out of this account and just do not sign in again...
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i dont think you can.  i know you can hide your online now icon...but thats about it..  go to your privacy settings
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on aim you go to my aim on the right side and then click on manage link screen name and then you add it or you can download both aim 5.9 and trition and sign on both using different sns and they wouldn't sign you off either. hope this helps. \n\n-unpredicktaboh-
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isnt it the most pointless thing ever?! anyway i dont remember how i did it exactly but i think i went into FAQ and there was something about cancelling your account. hope that works
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The possiblities for restricting them are complicated...with the easiest ways being the most costly. A service like AOL comes with it's own browser and parental settings that make it easy to restrict certain content. However, they (your family) still have the option to use another browser to circumvent the Parental Controls....\n\nNow, monitoring them is easy, and free. With your Internet Explorer window open, click VIEW, top left. Then select EXPLORER BAR, then HISTORY. A window will open on the left portion of the screen. In it you will find complete lists of all the pages viewed in order by day.\n\nI'm no expert but I hope these few things help you with your concerns. You may try also keeping open communication between you and them about where they go online and what they do with the time!\n\nPeace
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You can hit "sign out" , then "sign in" and sign in as a different user.  Check your email once you are signed in as yourself, and then don't forget to sign out again.\n\nIf the issue is that you don't want ot sign out the from the other person's account because of all the settings that risk going haywire (like Launchcast signing out or something), try opening up a different browser, such as FireFox and signing in there.\n\nIf someone is signed into Verizon Yahoo! for DSL via the Verizon Yahoo! for DSL browser, they will be signed into that account in Internet Explorer, Launchcast Music Engine, and some other IE based services, but they won't necessarily be signed into Yahoo!  services that aren't interrelated: for example, when you are signed into Yahoo! via Internet Explorer, you aren't necessarily signed into YIM or FireFox, as they read their cookies independently.  So, if you open up Firefox and sign in there, it won't effect any other services that the other person is signed in on.\n\nI hope that makes sense.
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Another dissatisfied AOL customer.  I'm not surprised.\n\n1.  Go to the AOL site and go to customer support or the like.  You'll probably have to do a little searching because they don't like to let paying customers leave.  Be firm once you get to someone in AOL 'cause they are going to try to convince you to stay with them.  Once you cancel your membership account follow what I've written for step 2.\n\n2.  GETTING RID OF AOL ON YOUR PC\n\nDo yourself a BIG favor. Remove anything on your PC that even mentions AOL. It is a resource hog and simply tries to take over your pc.\n\nClick on Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs and remove any AOL programs residing there.\n\nNow click on Start > Search > For Files or Folders > All Files and Folders\ntype in AOL in the top box and let the computer do a complete search of your hard drive. When it is done, click on Edit at the top of the window and click on Select All\nThen click on File and click on Delete. It will ask you if you want to remove them. Click on Yes.\n\nIf you want to REALLY finish the job:\n\nNOTE: DON'T DO ANYTHING ELSE IN THE REGISTRY OTHER THAN WHAT I MENTION HERE. If you are not familiar with editing the registry and you do other things you may give yourself some big headaches.\n\nClick on Start > Run >\ntype in regedit\nclick once on the very top directory to hilite it.\nHold down Ctrl + F; this will open a search window\ntype in AOL and then click on Find Next\nwhen it finds an AOL entry, right click on it and select Delete and yes. (Do this if it is a folder in the left hand pane or if it is an entry in the right hand pane)\nHold down Ctrl + F again and repeat the process until you have cleaned your registry of all AOL items. This may be a very tedious process so hang in there.\n\nWhen you think you have it all out. Go back up to the top directory in the left pane, hilite it, and search for AOL once again just to make sure you didn't miss any.\n\nOnce you are completely done. Reboot your PC. This will reset the registry without all the AOL crap. Now you should be able to reset your home page without any problems.
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The only website to get an AOL screen name for AOL Instant Messenger is http://www.aim.com/\n\nFor Yahoo! Messenger, check out http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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Just interrupt it's sign on process.  Then with it stopped, you should be able to change the username that it's trying to sign on with
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1st, open up your PROGRAMS folder and delete any instance of AOL. Do the same in just your C:, now do a search for AOL and delete every instance as well...there will quite a few. Lastely, in the RUN command box type in REGEDIT and do a search for AOL and America on line and delete every instance of them as well, you can hit F3 to forward to the next result. You will need to search for both AOL and America on line 3 times EACH to ensure they are gone....DONE!!
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You didn't mention what version of AOL you were using. I found this info for AOL 9...\n\nQuote from smartcomputing.com:\n------\nAOL 9.0—AOL 9.0 throws a few items into your startup routine, including the AOL program and AIM (AOL Instant Messenger). A feature called Fast Start loads AOL into memory at startup. To disable it, right-click the AOL System Tray icon, select AOL 9.0, and choose Start-Up Settings. From the AOL Start-Up Settings dialog box, deselect the Enable Fast Start option, click Save, and close AOL. After you reboot, AOL will be gone from your startup routine.\n\n\nAlso, if you feel like hacking into Windows a bit more, I'd recommend a tool from SysInternals called Autoruns. It will show you all the places AOL hooks into starup routines in Windows. Read more and download it here:\nhttp://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Autoruns.html
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On AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) you can type %n and it will fill in the person's screen name who is viewing it.  For example in an AIM profile you can put Hey %n! and when someone views it, it will fill in their screen name.
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go to Yahoo accounts and search for "cancel account" the link will come up.
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That won't sign you off, the simplest way to sign off is to click under file and sign off or exit aim, you can do the same from the icon in your bottom right hand corner of your toolbar.