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Date:      Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:45:19 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        Drew Baxter <netmonger@genesis.ispace.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape Corp
Message-ID:  <365BB58F.D7CC2410@uk.radan.com>
References:  <4.1.19981123010402.00adf100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981123010402.00adf100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981123134143.00ae4100@genesis.ispace.com> <4.1.19981124220824.00ae8a50@genesis.ispace.com>

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Drew Baxter wrote:
> 
> At 07:27 AM 11/24/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> >Drew Baxter wrote:
> >>
> >> Also I don't want to see AOL intermeshed and woven into
> >> the Netscape package, which it already includes AOL Instant Messenger
> >> (which you cannot pick to not install) with the Win32 installations.
> >>
> >
> >But you can disable it :-)
> >
> 
> Sure if you want to plunge into the registry.

Not so. From any Communicator window select Communicator -> AOL
Instant Messenger, then in the set-up dialogue box (if you get a box
first asking what type of connection you have, just click cancel)
select the ``misc'' tab and un-check ``Start AIM when Windows
starts''. Voila, no AOL Instant Messenger :-)

> I found that to be
> inconveniencing when I was hyperblasting 5 Sony's to have to go duke out
> the registry to nuke the Realplayer SmartStart and the copy of AIM..
> 
> ---
> Drew "Droobie" Baxter
> Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM)
> OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange, Bangor Maine USA
> http://www.droo.orland.me.us

-- 
  Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It
  was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.

Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd.
Bath, Avon, England.  Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions
mailto:marko@uk.radan.com    http://www.radan.com

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