i have done this in the past and ended up have problems, what is the best why to do this without messing anything up? i have never used AOL on this machine, and want to remove it without affecting any other programs. also what programs work best to remove all the unwanted junk and optimize performance? i used crap cleaner already. any other cleaners recommended here?
About the AOL program....just go to Control panel "Add or remove programs", and uninstall it?
Or maybe im misunderstanding.
But i just did a factory reinstall of my laptop the other week, and i got all the start up crap also, including a load of game demos. Just uninstalled them :D
i know how to uninstall through add/remove programs. my problem is this (and maybe its not a problem) in the past on other computers when i have deleted aol it tends to give me error messages on other programs. i dunno if its because some files are shared or what. anyway ill just try deleting them and see what happens i guess.
when i remove it, i use AOL's own uninstall wizard, then i go through with ccleaner, Spybot, etc and let them do their work, then i search through all the file systems for anything left from AOL.
