I never see AOL ads - I use Mozilla Thunderbird for all my AOL mail and Mozilla Firefox for browsing. The only time I need to use AOL software is if I wanted to change passwords or to block senders - I haven't investigated whether it is possible to do things like that through the aol.com site. Listers without their own non-AOL anti-viral, anti-spyware and anti-adware software should not change away from AOL software though. Anne Bmdible@aol.com wrote: > Re sliding mail down, it doesn't work anymore. I had it set, but was > resizing window and lost that part. Now it is part of the Email. You can't get rid > of it. I keep a paper propped up to hid it. The movement is very annoying.AOL > obviously monitors this Rootsweb site. > Barbara D. >

_JRAYMOND651@aol.com_ (mailto:JRAYMOND651@aol.com) writes: Woody, The "ad hiding trick" works for the window that shows all received emails. It does not work, as far as I can tell, with the window in which one reads an individual email unless you want the white box that displays the email text to be so small as to be virtually worthless. If this change hasn't yet hit your machine, count your blessings as I've doubt you will eventually get hit. Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ +++++++++++++++++ Not to beat a dead horse, but I experimented, and found that the Ad is gone if you use Cascade style.That way New mail fills the whole screen. Not the way I like, but for now the Ad is gone. Barbara D. ++++++++++++++++++ Thanks Jon and Barbara for clarifying the latest ad problem, and for the workaround. Woody

In a message dated 6/3/06 3:39:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, JRAYMOND651@aol.com writes: Woody, The "ad hiding trick" works for the window that shows all received emails. It does not work, as far as I can tell, with the window in which one reads an individual email unless you want the white box that displays the email text to be so small as to be virtually worthless. If this change hasn't yet hit your machine, count your blessings as I've doubt you will eventually get hit. Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ Not to beat a dead horse, but I experimented, and found that the Ad is gone if you use Cascade style.That way New mail fills the whole screen. Not the way I like, but for now the Ad is gone. Barbara D.

Woody, The "ad hiding trick" works for the window that shows all received emails. It does not work, as far as I can tell, with the window in which one reads an individual email unless you want the white box that displays the email text to be so small as to be virtually worthless. If this change hasn't yet hit your machine, count your blessings as I've doubt you will eventually get hit. Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/

If they have changed, then they haven't "hit" my machine with a update that defeats the ad hiding trick yet. I verified that the all adjustments worked before I sent out my last e-mail with the "how-to". And by the way, with the frustration going on, if one wants to transfer their AOL mail to Outlook Express, by a quirk of Outlook Express, it can be transferred and saved to be *exactly" as received in AOL while included in Outlook Express. However, it's a bit slow as each AOL e-mail must be forwarded to the new OE address one at a time. Woody +++++++++++++++++ JRAYMOND651@aol.com writes: Barbara, You are correct. The method used to resize the listed mail window, i.e., the window that shows all waiting emails, will not work to resize the window used to read an individual email. When you try to pull down from the top, the white space that shows the email text shrinks, but the banner ad at the bottom will not disappear until you only have 2-4 lines of email text showing. AOL changed something. Anyone want to bet that AOL is trying to find a way to undo the resizing we've done of the listed mail window? What's next? We will have to click on an ad before we can read an email? Oooops...maybe I shouldn't have said that! Jon Raymond

Barbara, I don't think anyone thought you had lost your mind...grin...but there seems to be some confusion about the two windows. Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/

In a message dated 6/3/06 2:56:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, JRAYMOND651@aol.com writes: Barbara, You are correct. The method used to resize the listed mail window, i.e., the window that shows all waiting emails, will not work to resize the window used to read an individual email. When you try to pull down from the top, the white space that shows the email text shrinks, but the banner ad at the bottom will not disappear until you only have 2-4 lines of email text showing. AOL changed something. Anyone want to bet that AOL is trying to find a way to undo the resizing we've done of the listed mail window? What's next? We will have to click on an ad before we can read an email? Oooops...maybe I shouldn't have said that! Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Thanks for backing me up, now the list won't think I've lost my mind. Barbara D.

Barbara, You are correct. The method used to resize the listed mail window, i.e., the window that shows all waiting emails, will not work to resize the window used to read an individual email. When you try to pull down from the top, the white space that shows the email text shrinks, but the banner ad at the bottom will not disappear until you only have 2-4 lines of email text showing. AOL changed something. Anyone want to bet that AOL is trying to find a way to undo the resizing we've done of the listed mail window? What's next? We will have to click on an ad before we can read an email? Oooops...maybe I shouldn't have said that! Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/

In a message dated 6/3/06 2:21:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, BogusWoody@aol.com writes: Bmdible@aol.com writes: It no longer works the ad is attached to the Email list. Barbara D. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I experimented with resizing, and I see the problem: Not scrolling the main side bar to allow room to drag down the bottom of the listed mail far enough. 1. On the listed mail page, place the cursor at the top and "pull" it up as far as it will go. 2. Go over to the far right on the main page and scroll *everything* on the screen up as far as it will go. 3. On the listed mail page, place the cursor at the bottom and "pull" it down as far as it will go.. 4. Go back to the far right and scroll everything on the screen back down. The offending advertising should now be hidden, and one sees a long page of listed mail. 5. If that looks good, lock it in by going to Window > Remember Size and Position. Woody No go. don't do anything to yours, or you'll be sorry. I never should have gone to Window to change something else, that's when I lost the setting to hide Ad. AOL changed the AD, so you have to see it. Barbara D.

Bmdible@aol.com writes: It no longer works the ad is attached to the Email list. Barbara D. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I experimented with resizing, and I see the problem: Not scrolling the main side bar to allow room to drag down the bottom of the listed mail far enough. 1. On the listed mail page, place the cursor at the top and "pull" it up as far as it will go. 2. Go over to the far right on the main page and scroll *everything* on the screen up as far as it will go. 3. On the listed mail page, place the cursor at the bottom and "pull" it down as far as it will go.. 4. Go back to the far right and scroll everything on the screen back down. The offending advertising should now be hidden, and one sees a long page of listed mail. 5. If that looks good, lock it in by going to Window > Remember Size and Position. Woody

In a message dated 6/3/06 1:35:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: Jon- It's a two step process...first resize the window as far as it will expand toward the bottom and then grab the dark blue bar at the top to MOVE the expanded window down to hide the banner ads. It should work as long as the placement of the new ads doesn't mean you are also moving the attach file, spell check and signatures boxes off of the viewable screen. Since I haven't seen the placement of the new ads I can't answer whether that is a problem or not. Joan It no longer works the ad is attached to the Email list. Barbara D.

In a message dated 6/3/2006 12:52:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, JRAYMOND651@aol.com writes: I think AOL has made a change...again. If I try to resize the email message window (not the window that shows all the waiting emails), it does not appear work as resizing did for the window showing all the emails. If I try to drag from the bottom of the window, it stops at the bottom task bar. If I try to drag from the top, I can make the banner ads disappear, but then I have only two lines of email text showing! Jon- It's a two step process...first resize the window as far as it will expand toward the bottom and then grab the dark blue bar at the top to MOVE the expanded window down to hide the banner ads. It should work as long as the placement of the new ads doesn't mean you are also moving the attach file, spell check and signatures boxes off of the viewable screen. Since I haven't seen the placement of the new ads I can't answer whether that is a problem or not. Joan

Joan, I think AOL has made a change...again. If I try to resize the email message window (not the window that shows all the waiting emails), it does not appear work as resizing did for the window showing all the emails. If I try to drag from the bottom of the window, it stops at the bottom task bar. If I try to drag from the top, I can make the banner ads disappear, but then I have only two lines of email text showing! Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/

I can only read ten lines of an email. The rest is the header or the cursed banner ads.

In a message dated 6/3/2006 11:26:24 AM Eastern Standard Time, JRAYMOND651@aol.com writes: Joan, I am not talking about the mail box window that shows all of the emails waiting to be read. That box I resized long ago. I am talking about the window that appears when I click on a specific email to read it. Can this box also be resized? Sure it can--and moved also--but don't forget to bring down the Window menu up top of the AOL screen after you do it and tell it to REMEMBER the placement and size of the window. Joan

Everything is slower now. The sites load more slowly, the banner ads all load before anything else and delays mail loading, etc. Is it my imagination or is AOL getting worse instead of better. I think it's because they add too many frills that lots of folks don't need or want. But then, that's just an opinion and everyone has one.

Dorothy, Ya know, I had followed the tip on this list about getting rid of the annoying advertising at the bottom of the listed mail page by resizing and locking the page with the advertising moved down and hidden. It's been working so blissfully well I had forgotten about the fact the annoyance existed. You get rid of the annoying advertising at the bottom of the listed mail by resizing and moving and then going to "Window" and "Remember Window size and position". Doesn't that work? Woody ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ . Bmdible@aol.com writes: Re sliding mail down, it doesn't work anymore. I had it set, but was resizing window and lost that part. Now it is part of the Email. You can't get rid of it. I keep a paper propped up to hid it. The movement is very annoying.AOL obviously monitors this Rootsweb site. Barbara D.

Re sliding mail down, it doesn't work anymore. I had it set, but was resizing window and lost that part. Now it is part of the Email. You can't get rid of it. I keep a paper propped up to hid it. The movement is very annoying.AOL obviously monitors this Rootsweb site. Barbara D.

Joan, I am not talking about the mail box window that shows all of the emails waiting to be read. That box I resized long ago. I am talking about the window that appears when I click on a specific email to read it. Can this box also be resized? Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/

In a message dated 6/3/06 10:20:43 AM Central Daylight Time, JRAYMOND651@aol.com writes: What version do you have? I have v9.0 Security Edition SE. I have v9 also but I think it "Optimized or something like that.