So, I'm working on supporting someone who had an issue with AOL and had to reinstall it. Nevermind the other issues, there are still lots of people who rely on AOL for dial-up access. Although, for $29.95/month, can I interest you in DSL?
AOL's interface is a download manager instead of a full zip extract. For those of us on high-speed internet, it's a quick download. Don't bother installing the result... it's not for you, unless you want it.
As of this writing, AOL has three main releases: an allpurpose 9.0VR (includes support for 98/ME/2K/XP/Vista), a 9.5 release for releases >= XP, Vista, Win7, but not 98/Me/2000) and a Desktop release for XP/Vista/Win 7.
If you run the downloaders, but not the installs, AOL drops all of what it does inside of
C:\Documents And Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL Downloads\ 9.0 is
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\AOL Downloads\waol\0.4327.165.1\waol-0.4327.165.1.exe" (About 60MB)9.5 is (in Vista)
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\waol_single_4337.185.4.1\setup.exe (about 50MB for the directory).Desktop (10.1) is
"C:\ProgramData\AOL Downloads\NexusSuite\2.1.103.1\setup.exe" (About 43MB) (Updated 9/19/2010 for Desktop Version 10.1)The whole size of AOL Downloads for those three installs is about 150MB, easily burnable to a CD or copied to a flash drive. Obviously, if you want to hedge your bets, the 9.0 is the most versatile, but with rapidly decreasing costs and increasing size of portable storage, having the choices on-hand is easier than ever before.
So, knowing where the installs start (the 9.x are not
setup.exe) is important, but at least now you have the offline copy of AOL full software.
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