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ok i have aohell i i hate it i want to use IE but i cant so how do i do it and get me away form the "hello" "youve got mail"

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I don't understand.

Just open Internet Explorer and it should work? It's the icon in your programs list (or desktop or quick launch) that looks like a big blue E.

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Download and install Firefox.

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How did I know you were going to post that, Red...

For those of you who don't know how to read, or don't know how to read 13-year-old, This particular person is having trouble figuring out how to use a regular browser with AOL, ie surf the web without using the browser built into the AOL program.

Last time I used AOL [somewhere around a decade ago] AOL didn't use the standard dial-up networking stuff that every other ISP did. So it was difficult to get anything non-AOL to work over an AOL dial-up connection. Not sure if they still do that though. I try to avoid it like the plague. Back then though, there was a special version of IE that would work with AOL, which you could download. This was back when I knew very little about computers, so take it with a grain of salt.

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I had AOL as recently as a few years ago, even had AOL DSL (which they just recently stopped doing, I believe) and I never had any problems with using any other browsers, including IE, Opera, and Mozilla?

In fact, I didn't ever use the built in one for AOL, mostly because I thought it was way too small.

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Never used AOL, but perhaps IE has to be set up to use an AOL proxy?

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Nah, you don't have to do any setup to use IE.

Only thing I can think of, if he's opening up IE and unable to use it, is that maybe his parent's are using AOL's parental controls?

edit: unless, of course, his IE is just hosed somehow and needs to be re-installed. Basically what I'm trying to say here is that there is no conflict or setup needed in order to use IE when you have AOL.

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