I know out there is a program to shut off idle messages and shutdowns for Aol, compuserve, etc. We had it on the last computer but I can’t find it for our new system.
I was in the end of a long email and the bastard shut down on me. ARRRRRRGH!
Help me out, and I will speak highly of you and sing your praises. Thanks in advance.
still trying to think of something witty to say here.
I’ll be glad to email it to you if you like, Zeb.
Hope you’re still not mad at me. I apologised to you in the pit.
I’m glad you asked this question, Zeb, as I had no idea those things could be shut off. I rarely get the “you’ve been on line way too long, you need to get a life, do you REALLY want to stay on, you dweeb?” messages anymore, but those “you’ve been idle” ones drive me NUTS! So I did a quick search and came up with this…
AOL Timer Zapper - Popup Monitor
I’m going to download it and try it out myself, too.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
My advice, Zeb, is to find another ISP. AOL sucks rocks for a variety of reasons. I got one of their disks for 100 hours of free internet time. I lasted a day and a half, and I called them up and cancelled the service. Their connection speed was so slow that I would click on a link and be logged off for being idle while I was waiting to be connected to the server. Part of it was my old computer- it had a 286mhz processor, I think, but ye gods, more than twenty minutes to connect to a server?
Sorry, Cecil, but that’s the way I feel.
The trouble with Sir Launcelot is by the time he comes riding up, you’ve already married King Arthur.
That’s happened to me, too. Very frustrating.
It’s happening because your computer thinks you have been idle for 20 minutes, or whatever your default setting may be.
One way I’ve found that generally works to circumvent it is to run a messenger program such as Yahoo Messenger or ICQ while you do your work.
“In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” - Ecclesiastes 1:18
Costco sent me an offer of MSN with a new discount of $10 off plus a $20 coupon for something else. Bringing it to under $8 a month first three months.
But Juno.com, Kmart.com, alta-vista, etc all have FREE net access right now.
Anybody have experience with mindspring?
handy: I’m trying the AltaVista free access, but I’m not ready to give up un trusted ISPs yet.
FWIW – I downloaded that ‘Timer Zapper’ bugger from www.stonefish.com, and as soon as I tried to ‘register’ I got a screen that said somesuch nonsense to the effect that the ‘registration’ file did not exist.
When I went back to the folder I’d stuffed it into, the lousy little weasel had already wormed its way out, and it took a full hour to find the bits of it and put them all to death.
I’m no electronics expert, and it’d be no small guess that I might have somehow exploded the feckin’ thing my own self, but caution is advised just the same.
Dr. Watson
“Nothing is true, not even that.”
Yikes! Immediate Disclaimer: I had no idea that the mere mention of a website made the damnable thing show up as a link. (I always wondered how ye folks were doing that, and I suppose I now know.)
Secondary Disclaimer: I neither endorse nor condemn the inadvertent link created above, and merely mention that their ‘product’ caused me grief, either through their design or me own incompetence.
Tertiary Disclaimer: Okay, I’m an idiot.
Dr. Watson
“No, I distinctly ordered the ‘Vegetable’ Chow Fun and The ‘Pork’ Lo Mein.”
Hey guys,
I have a program called Wizon that kills the “you’ve been online for” messages and also allows you to kill instant messages.
I got it a couple of years a go and it still works for Aol 5.0.
If anybody wants it I can email it to you.
“It’s like banging your head against a wall because it feels so good when you stop.”
Sounds wonderful, Robbaba, would you email it to me please? You may save me from heaving my laptop out of the window in pure frustation. I’d sure appreciate it.
Thanks!
Veb