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Cannot open AOL from shortcut Nothing happens when I doubleclick on the AOL icon

Asked Mar 14, 2010, 08:21 PM — 2 Answers
I cannot open AOL from the desktop Icom. It worked earlier today but now nothing happens, I recently installed AOL 10.1 because 9.0 was having problems. My addressbook now has old addresses I changed to the correct ones months ago. I cannot access my sent mail. Mail takes a long time to send

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Mar 15, 2010, 05:37 AM
Though I prefer not using AOL at all (seems to take up too many resources), I would try the shortcut in your Start Menu.

If that one works, then you can right click on it, and choose "Send to->Desktop (Create Shortcut)"

Otherwise, navigate to where it is on your hard drive. For example, go to C:\Program Files\AOL It should be somewhere around that area. You can find the main .exe file in there, and do the same procedure as above.
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Mar 17, 2012, 08:10 PM
Right click the AOL icon and click on tab 'Properties' to see if you're listed in 'Permissions' and 'Owner'. With the new security with Windows 7 the desktop isn't like it used to be when all Users could open everything. (check this for other programs that won't open on the desktop...or won't open at all).
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