My friend has internet explorer 9, service provider the post office but for years has used AOL for emails. She gets onto IE and yahoo and can dowload the AOL homepage. What she cant do now is log onto her email account, never had a problem before. Any ideas what she has done wrong?
If my eldest son was around, I'm sure he would have been able to tell you. However, when it comes to computers my knowledge is very limited.
Bin IE 9 and get Chrome or Firefox still might not help her sign in (but surprisingly it might) but they are both better browsers than IE. Once she does get in, tell her to get Mozilla Thunderbird, put her AOL email into that, and then she will never have to login via the site again to get her emails.
advice from AOL http://help.aol.com/help/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=223296
How did I forget the 2nd option, I must say it 10 times a day to my members when they cant sign in. But my point still stands, if she switches browsers, then point 2 would not exist as she wouldnt have any cookies or cache yet.
AOL was based around screenames not full email addresses To log into it you dont need to add the @aol.com bit. AOL may also have deleted the email account if she no longer uses them as a ISP.
FF is **** these days, ever since they have started releasing a new version every 2 weeks. not user friendly at all. Chrome is good, if you trust google not to spam you with adverts based on the browsing habits. IE9 is actually a very competitive browser, and there is not much between it an Chrome (+ other browsers) these days. Even the IT designer (and major Apple fan) at my work agree's! I agree with getting a program such as Thunderbird or Outlook though, so she can check her emails through them instead of having to go to the webpage everytime.
Each to their own, I love FF especially adblock+ and noscript addons, yes it does tend to use a little bit more ram than chrome, but if you have 4-8 gig of ram its not that big of a deal. and not sure how its not user friendly, but then i like linux and that is anything but user friendly but FF is as far as i am concerned. even if you mean noob friendly it still is, so not sure what you are getting at there. Suppose i hate IE as i am a noob web devoloper, and its a right pain in the arse to code for, as it does certian things different. I am not anti-Microsoft, but i do hate how they have cornered the market in eveything, IE, Office packages, Outlook, job adverts always have these as pre-requisites, i cant stand outlook tbh. but like i said each to their own, if you like ads, and malware, stick with IE, no skin off my nose.
With you Steve I am a Microsoft programmer do my own VBA and asp.net in vb but they are far from perfect. Its word that is my bug bear I hate that thing. I swear it has not moved on since office 95!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr EDIT BTW dan is right IE9 a giant step forward and has improved it no end.
