and.... you are pleased?
I am no longer awful with computers, but do worry I will lose a ton of stuff. They say NO!
Well, I don't do much with it other than send and read email and make folders for emails that I want to keep. I also use the AOL chat feature once in a while if someone I know is online at the same time.
I use to keep "favorites" websites of pages I wanted to go to without memorizing their web address. There use to be some kind of "favorites" function. I lost those addresses when I got a new computer (old one kept crashing) and cannot get them back due to they are saved on the computer itself via the AOL program installed. They were not saved to a server per say. I cannot retrieve them, but that may be because my modem is hooked up to the new computer now, so no internet connection on the old computer to be able to log into AOL on the old computer and open the program. So I do not know if you would lose this kind of data by switching to FREE AOL if you kept the same computer. I have noticed that on my version of AOL now, there isn't a "favorites" folder function, and I've been operating without it for some time now. What I do instead now is "book mark" the webpages I want to save via the WINDOWS 7 software.
Beyond not keeping the old saved emails and webpages that I had saved (again may be because I switched computers..they may still be there If I was able to get an internet connection on the old computer to open the program) I don't recall missing anything else. I am not sure what happened with the email contacts or address book, as in I don't remember if they were saved or not - its been so long ago, and people keep changing their email addresses anyway.
So all in all I am okay with it.
