AOL More Info

1. AOL has very good Virus and Adware protection.  You do not need their "Premium Offering" $cost.
   • Of course you get continuous exposure to AOL's own ads and offerings; lots of them.
   • Adding another Anti Virus product not only is unwise, it slows down you machine that AOL has already slowed down with their stuff.
2. The AOL software includes many tools (for them, not me) to help you remotely. Their stuff makes my techie tools difficult or at least increases my time.
3. Because AOL machines run so much slower than reasonable,
   • that substantially extends my "wait time" between servicing tasks and procedures as I go through locating and fixing problems.
   • Adding more memory to AOL machines sometimes helps this problem.  If you are running Windows XP, you need 1-GB total, With VISTA you need 2-GB total.  More memory is the cheapest "for sure" performance boost you can get.  AOL is not the only issue.
4. AOL builds an environment on your machine and in you mind so that you call only AOL for Help. 
   • AOL excludes other support by making it to costly in time required.
   • Sometimes calling AOl ends up in costing you dollars.
     • (That result was not planned; it simply is a 'side benefit' to AOL.)
   • Any other support (like me) finds AOL machines are too time consuming.  In my case, because I limit charges to "what I think a job is worth", I find myself spending long hours for nothing.  If I charge purely on time, no one would pay it...
5. Conclusion... I don't need AOL machines in my life.  Fortunately, I don't see very many.