How can I uninstall American Online software from my computer

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I installed AOL on my computer(XP), now I want to uninstall it from my computer. But every time when I use contro
panel-add/change to uninstall it, the computer freezes at"Please wait while we look for versions of AOL on your computer.No changes are being made to your computer at this time". Any body can tell me how to fix this problem
Thanks
zhe
 
Hi

Have you tried contacting AOL to see if they can help?

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Will Denny
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| I installed AOL on my computer(XP), now I want to uninstall it from my computer. But every time when I use control
| panel-add/change to uninstall it, the computer freezes at"Please wait while we look for versions of AOL on your computer.No changes are being made to your computer at this time". Any body can tell me how to fix this problem.
| Thanks.
| zhe
 
Give it some time. When it's "searching for AOL
versions", it usually takes quite some time and comes out
looking like it's freezing up.


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I installed AOL on my computer(XP), now I want to
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uninstall it from my computer. But every time when I use
control
panel-add/change to uninstall it, the computer freezes
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at"Please wait while we look for versions of AOL on your
computer.No changes are being made to your computer at
this time". Any body can tell me how to fix this problem.
 
Greetings --

Sadly, the only practical way I've ever found to _completely_
remove AOL from an operating system is to format the hard drive and
perform a clean installation. I absolutely loathe having to resort to
a hard drive format to fix what _should_ be a relatively minor issue,
but it takes a lot less time than manually removing/replacing all of
the Windows system files that AOL replaces with their own versions and
the hundreds of unnecessary registry entries.


Bruce Chambers

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Thank you all for your advice! Like Shannon said,finally the searching completed,but it told me that there was nothing it could delete even AOL 8.0 was installed.When I try to run AOL ,AOL gives me error message "Your MAIN.IDX file is damaged. If this problem persists, you may need to reinstall the American Online software. For more information, go to Keyword:help and refer to MAIN.IDX in the Error Messages section". How about I reinstall AOL and then run uninstall to delete it from my computer? Do you think this will work. Thanks a lot
 
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