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Many of you are not blessed by the wonders of the program officially known as America OnLine, and as such, I felt the need to share with you, some of the infinite wisdom of it's programmers:
Lately, whenever I close AOL on my home computer, I get a dialog box that pops up saying words to the effect of "AOL needs to remove artwork from your computer to speed up your online experience" EVERY. TIME. AOL is limited to a maximum of 60MB of artwork storage, and I think that after every session, it deletes it down to ~59,998KB. Anyway, this very annoy trait requires a solution, and I present to you now in whole the offical AOL approved method for deleting this AOL Artwork (it is, as near as i can tell, exactly the same as "Cache" which is what any normal browser would call it.):
After an extended period of time, the amount of stored artwork on your computer can reduce efficiency.
Purge the Artwork Database
You can delete the artwork by resetting the amount of space AOL uses to store online art.
To purge the artwork database:
1. Launch the AOL software, but do not sign on.
If using any version of AOL® 9.0: On the AOL® toolbar, click the Settings icon, then click the Offline Storage link.
If using AOL® 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0: On the AOL toolbar, click the Settings drop-down menu, click Preferences, then click the Font, Text, & Graphics link.
2. In the Graphics Settings section, click the Maximum disk space to use for online art drop-down arrow and lower the value to the lowest setting, then click the Save button.
3. On the AOL toolbar, click the File menu, then click Exit.
4. Launch the AOL software once again, but do not sign on.
If using any version of AOL® 9.0: On the AOL® toolbar, click the Settings icon, then click the Offline Storage link.
If using AOL® 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0: On the AOL toolbar, click the Settings drop-down menu, click Preferences, then click the Font, Text, & Graphics link.
5. In the Graphics Settings section, click the Maximum disk space to use for online art drop-down arrow and increase the value back to its original setting (no more than 60 megabyte(s) for AOL 9.0, and no more than 40 megabyte(s) for AOL 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0), then click the Save button.
6. Sign on to AOL.
I CANNOT Believe this. This is a windows 3.1 or MS-DOS style solution. In todays era of user-friendly computing we have buttons, and dialog boxes that do this automatically It is simply bad form on the part of AOL programmers (in my opinion, at any rate).
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clear my AOL Artwork. Hmph.
Lately, whenever I close AOL on my home computer, I get a dialog box that pops up saying words to the effect of "AOL needs to remove artwork from your computer to speed up your online experience" EVERY. TIME. AOL is limited to a maximum of 60MB of artwork storage, and I think that after every session, it deletes it down to ~59,998KB. Anyway, this very annoy trait requires a solution, and I present to you now in whole the offical AOL approved method for deleting this AOL Artwork (it is, as near as i can tell, exactly the same as "Cache" which is what any normal browser would call it.):
After an extended period of time, the amount of stored artwork on your computer can reduce efficiency.
Purge the Artwork Database
You can delete the artwork by resetting the amount of space AOL uses to store online art.
To purge the artwork database:
1. Launch the AOL software, but do not sign on.
If using any version of AOL® 9.0: On the AOL® toolbar, click the Settings icon, then click the Offline Storage link.
If using AOL® 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0: On the AOL toolbar, click the Settings drop-down menu, click Preferences, then click the Font, Text, & Graphics link.
2. In the Graphics Settings section, click the Maximum disk space to use for online art drop-down arrow and lower the value to the lowest setting, then click the Save button.
3. On the AOL toolbar, click the File menu, then click Exit.
4. Launch the AOL software once again, but do not sign on.
If using any version of AOL® 9.0: On the AOL® toolbar, click the Settings icon, then click the Offline Storage link.
If using AOL® 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0: On the AOL toolbar, click the Settings drop-down menu, click Preferences, then click the Font, Text, & Graphics link.
5. In the Graphics Settings section, click the Maximum disk space to use for online art drop-down arrow and increase the value back to its original setting (no more than 60 megabyte(s) for AOL 9.0, and no more than 40 megabyte(s) for AOL 6.0, 7.0, or 8.0), then click the Save button.
6. Sign on to AOL.
I CANNOT Believe this. This is a windows 3.1 or MS-DOS style solution. In todays era of user-friendly computing we have buttons, and dialog boxes that do this automatically It is simply bad form on the part of AOL programmers (in my opinion, at any rate).
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go clear my AOL Artwork. Hmph.