I'm not sure if these settings will work in 9.0 or 9.1.............. But it's worth a try. 1) Place your curser over the AOL icon in the sys-tray down by your clock and Right-click it. It should bring up a menu and one of the options is AOL 9.0 or 9.1. 2) hover your curser over that menu item and an additional menu will open. >From that one choose Start-Up Settings. 3) There should be a choice to 'Start AOL whenever I'm on the Internet.' (or similar wording). Remove check mark and be sure to hit the OK. Sharon ------------------------------------------------- In a message dated 10/28/2009 10:59:22 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, JYoung6180@aol.com writes: Somewhere there may be a setting about AOL not starting automatically but I'm not sure if that would work in this case. Maybe Sharon knows? Joan In a message dated 10/28/2009 1:45:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Nlpakkala@aol.com writes: Thanks Joan. Is there any way to stop this from happening?