Same here--I hide them also--but you can't hide the ones on the confirmation that your email has been sent -- and I had the looping occur on one of those as well as the buried ads. Sometimes, if you wait it out AOL begins responding again--but other times it doesn't. Joan In a message dated 8/20/2008 11:48:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Thanks Joan for your reply to my question about typing the non-responding thing. I don't see those looping ads because I have them buried. When AOL first started doing those ads I learned on here how to hide them. They were driving me NUTS! Judy **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

Thanks Joan for your reply to my question about typing the non-responding thing. I don't see those looping ads because I have them buried. When AOL first started doing those ads I learned on here how to hide them. They were driving me NUTS! Judy **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

This happens to me, too, and I use broadband. It is rather annoying. Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/ **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

This has nothing to do with your being on dial up. It has to do with the ads that load at the bottom when you open an email or email reply window. I've had the ads loop and loop and sometimes it eventually stops and you can type again and the "Not Responding" notation goes away and other times you have to end task in task manager to exit AOL. I suspect it is the result of poorly executed code. The problem seems to be intermittent. It was happening earlier this morning. Joan In a message dated 8/19/2008 1:13:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: The last week or two I've noticed a situation as I type an email. I'll be typing along & not seeing anything on the email page. I'll stop & eventually AOL will catch up. Sometimes I'll see on the top blue bar where it says "AOL 9.0 SE edition....not responding. Is this happening to anyone else? BTW, I'm on dial-up, but this doesn't happen consistently. Judy **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

The last week or two I've noticed a situation as I type an email. I'll be typing along & not seeing anything on the email page. I'll stop & eventually AOL will catch up. Sometimes I'll see on the top blue bar where it says "AOL 9.0 SE edition....not responding. Is this happening to anyone else? BTW, I'm on dial-up, but this doesn't happen consistently. Judy **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

Judy , I think if you go to settings on top bar click on start up settings You will find the answer to ..... AOL restarting automatically hope this will help ........ Gerri Mason Ohio I do NOT have the problem with AOL trying to restart though--I think you need to check to be sure you don't have a box marked off someplace in your settings that tells AOL to reconnect when closed. I'm not sure where that might be--but I think there is a box in the settings someplace. **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/AOLERS-ROOTSWEB ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

Judy- It doesn't do that for me. However, if I click the red x to close the AOL program it minimized ALL programs I had running and they no longer appear on the bottom left of the VISTA taskbar. Yikes! The first time that happened to me I thought closing AOL had actually CLOSED ALL programs I had running. I soon learned that the programs were still running but I had to click (or double click--forget which now) the icon on the taskbar on the right next to the clock to get them to pop back up and reappear on the left side of the task bar as a running program. I'm in the habit of clicking on the link in the lower left taskbar to bring the program i want to the front--but this totally baffled me that that they had all disappeared just because I closed out AOL. Now I know to use the File Close or exit to close out the AOL program and that leaves my other programs where I want them. I do NOT have the problem with AOL trying to restart though--I think you need to check to be sure you don't have a box marked off someplace in your settings that tells AOL to reconnect when closed. I'm not sure where that might be--but I think there is a box in the settings someplace. Joan In a message dated 8/19/2008 1:34:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Latest 9.1 complaints... 1. clicking File>Close OR clicking the RedX should mean the same = close the dang program Both were auto-re-opening aol I found where to stop the auto sign-in But, still if you click the RedX, AOL tries to re-open the program **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

Latest 9.1 complaints... 1. clicking File>Close OR clicking the RedX should mean the same = close the dang program Both were auto-re-opening aol I found where to stop the auto sign-in But, still if you click the RedX, AOL tries to re-open the program 2. click a news story on the Welcome screen and get taken to that ad page 3. click a news story on the Welcome screen and get taken to something in outer space, nothing to do with what I clicked 4. can't use hi-lite -copy-paste on some stories -- if interesting, users might like a personal copy 5. programmers who don't know how to form a LINK -- dead links with colored underlines are no fun 6. that I can't call aol just to complain... they want money to just take my complaints (not asking for tech support; just for them to file the complaints!)

gmail does an excellent job with sending mail. I've had very few List bounces (our Admin for 1 county forwards the item to the list & it shows as a bounced one). To get a copy of your sent mail, add your name as CC or BCC. Yes, I know that doesn't prove it got to a List, but using CC does help sanity (did I send that? or did I forget?) Judy On 8/18/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > While gmail has some excellent features, I stopped using it because I didn't > get my own posts back by default when I posted a message to a rootsweb > mailing list. I had to keep checking the list archives to see if my message "made > it" to the list, which became a time-consuming > nuisance to me. > > Lou

While gmail has some excellent features, I stopped using it because I didn't get my own posts back by default when I posted a message to a rootsweb mailing list. I had to keep checking the list archives to see if my message "made it" to the list, which became a time-consuming nuisance to me. Lou --------------original message------------------- In a message dated 8/18/2008 2:18:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Try gmail (Google Mail). It holds "tons" of old mail (for forever), you can set filters to auto-sort mail as it arrives (handy for Lists), it handles images/attachments much easier than AOL, it auto-grabs spam with almost 100% efficiency (and deletes it after 30 days--never need to touch it), it has chat capbility (that get saved to email--esp if you don't see it when someone sends)--- and, it's free. Judy **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)

Hotmail "as is" is incompatible with Rootsweb mailing lists. Hotmail replies that include quoted messages are mangled, and are irritating to attempt to read.  However, there is a fix on the Rootsweb help desk that changes  Hotmail's default HTML with Tabitha font to plain text.  Anyone contemplating using Hotmail for Rootsweb lists MUST  change their default HTML to plain text, or listen to the agonized  screams of other Rootsweb list subscribers like me.    To change Hotmail so that it is compatible with Rootsweb  mail lists, follow the instructions found at:    http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/plaintext.html    I happen to be using AOL web mail for this message due to  a registry problem related to MS SP3. I learned from   Joan how to change AOL web mail to plain text so it won't randomly ?? inject question ? marks all over ??? my messages ????? like this.    Woody    -----Original Message-----  From: [email protected]  To: [email protected]  Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:55 am  Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Wilson    Any free webmail application is MUCH slower than using a regular email  client -- AOL or any other one.    Hotmail currently doesn't seem to work too well with the RootsWeb lists in  that the formatting is lost when a message is quoted in a reply--so far I've  not seen a solution to that.    Joan  =====================  In a message dated 8/18/2008 11:05:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  [email protected] writes:    Yes, it has happened to me often lately, and I am more often  thinking of changing to hotmail like my children and grandchildren  all use and keep trying to convince me. It's free and according to  them trouble free too.    Patricia     

Try gmail (Google Mail). It holds "tons" of old mail (for forever), you can set filters to auto-sort mail as it arrives (handy for Lists), it handles images/attachments much easier than AOL, it auto-grabs spam with almost 100% efficiency (and deletes it after 30 days--never need to touch it), it has chat capbility (that get saved to email--esp if you don't see it when someone sends)--- and, it's free. Judy On 8/18/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, it has happened to me often lately, and I am more often thinking of > changing to hotmail like my children and grandchildren all use and keep trying > to convince me. It's free and according to them trouble free too. > > Patricia

In a message dated 8/17/2008 9:49:58 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: You can't do that - then all you'd have to complain about would be the weather. This is more fun because you get to meet lots of nice folks. Ruth ***** Good one, Ruth. I agree. Velma **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Volkswagen-Jetta-2009/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00030000000007 )

Hotmail hates Rootsweb mailing lists. Hotmail replies with quoted messages are mangled, and very irritating to attempt to read. However, there is a fix on the Rootsweb help desk that changes Hotmail's default HTML with Tabitha font to plain text. Anyone contemplating using Hotmail for Rootsweb lists MUST change their default HTML to plain text, or listen to the agonized screams of other Rootsweb list subscribers like me. To change Hotmail so that it is compatible with Rootsweb mail lists, follow the instructions found at: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/plaintext.html I happen to be using AOL web mail for this message due to a registry problem related to MS SP3. I learned from that (or was it Joan?) how to change AOL web mail to plain text so it won't randomly ?? inject question ? marks all over ??? my messages ????? like this. Woody ????? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:55 am Subject: Re: [AOL-RW] Wilson Any free webmail application is MUCH slower than using a regular email client -- AOL or any other one. Hotmail currently doesn't seem to work too well with the RootsWeb lists in that the formatting is lost when a message is quoted in a reply--so far I've not seen a solution to that. Joan ===================== In a message dated 8/18/2008 11:05:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Yes, it has happened to me often lately, and I am more often thinking of changing to hotmail like my children and grandchildren all use and keep trying to convince me. It's free and according to them trouble free too. Patricia

Any free webmail application is MUCH slower than using a regular email client -- AOL or any other one. Hotmail currently doesn't seem to work too well with the RootsWeb lists in that the formatting is lost when a message is quoted in a reply--so far I've not seen a solution to that. Joan In a message dated 8/18/2008 11:05:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Yes, it has happened to me often lately, and I am more often thinking of changing to hotmail like my children and grandchildren all use and keep trying to convince me. It's free and according to them trouble free too. Patricia **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Volkswagen-Jetta-2009/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00030000000007 )

Yes, it has happened to me often lately, and I am more often thinking of changing to hotmail like my children and grandchildren all use and keep trying to convince me. It's free and according to them trouble free too. Patricia **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Volkswagen-Jetta-2009/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00030000000007 )

You can't do that - then all you'd have to complain about would be the weather. This is more fun because you get to meet lots of nice folks. Ruth In a message dated 8/17/2008 8:44:11 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: This is another minor irritation that may lead me to drop AOL after 20+ **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Volkswagen-Jetta-2009/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00030000000007 )

Has anyone noticed that clicking on one of the AOL news stories frequently (but not always) shows the news story briefly, that goes to a blank page titles "adpage.html"? If I close the adpage, then go back to the news article, it doesn't come back. Is this more AOL weirdness that will eventually go away? This is another minor irritation that may lead me to drop AOL after 20+ years. Wilson **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Volkswagen-Jetta-2009/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00030000000007 )

To Judy: Thanks. I had to reinstall my version of AOL to get back what I originally had. Jeanne ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )

Many, Many Thanks to all who have helped me get the Roots web Messages back. I learn from all your posts and do appreciate reading them. Tom Temple **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 )