AOL Desktop Gold
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Mike Morris set up a lock up for my wife's computer and wants $299.00 a year to clean it up. This was from your gold set up. WHY?
stop the scams
Let me put you in touch with one of our Technical Support agents to investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.
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I have been on hold for 4 hours over a two day period, I can't open my mail and in the process it locks up my computer. WTF
Get rid of desk top Gold, we pay for a system that doesn't work and there is no one in tech support that has a clue how to fix anything. I have to go on Goggle to get to AOL Mail. Can someone PLEASE get to me. If this continues I going to cancel.
We apologize for the long hold time you experienced. Your feedback is valuable to us, as we strive to continually improve our user experience.
If the issue still persists please give us a call at 1-800-827-6364 and one of our technician will assist.
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Adg security feature is annoying
I am unable to open different links from some emails because those are recognized to be fishy by Aol Dektop Gold, if I try to go on the web mail and open those links, even thought they a recognized by Malware bytes as being suspicious I can at least open them. since I use adg mostly, it is a very annoying feature, so please allow me to choose if I want to go to a website or not
I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents look deeply into the issue you encountered with the address book. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone. Less
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FIX THIS PLEASE!!!
I continue to have issues sending emails with embedded graphics - I get the email all ready to send and press SEND and it doesnt send. The word SEND continues to be in BOLD and not grayed out. It NEVER sends! Then I have to copy/paste the entire email over and make my attachments one more time. THEN it will send. Since I do a lot of graphic work (One of the main reasons that I liked AOL - past tense - is for the graphic capabilities) this is causing me much more work as it happens 90% of the…
I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.
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I cannot download an email attachment or print an email to a PDF printer. I have reported this bug 3 times and no response.
Fix AOL Desktop Gold. I expect to get what I pay for. I have reported this bug 3 times and no response. This problem started within the last 2 weeks. I can go to AOL in a browser and then I can either download an attachment or print to a PDF printer. Why is it not working in AOL Desktop "Gold?" I have been using the same computer, with the same settings, with the same operating system, with the same network, with the same internet provider for at least 7 years. Also, get rid of all of the awful…
I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at: 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.
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surveys
Change survey from 1 to 10..some computers do not recognize 10 , thinks it's a 1 (giving a poor rating)
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Email is not updating
For the past few days my email is not current. I know there are new mails because they come through on my phone. But Desktop Gold on my computer is not updating. I tried the "refresh mail" but this does nothing. It only updates if I completely shut it down and resign in. HELP!
Please send us a crash report in order for our engineers to look into the issue you are experiencing. To do that, please follow these steps:
1. Open AOL Desktop Gold.
2. Click on Help on the top right, and select Report a Bug from the drop-down menu.
3. Type a short description of the problem, and click Send.For immediate assistance with this issue, please call us at 1-888-265-3733.
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It should be possible to read mail saved on one's PC without having to sign on to AOL
AOL is engaging in deception by telling users they can save mail on their PC. No, that is not true. If it was, users would be able to read it without signing on, would be able to back it up, and would be able to transfer it to another computer. This appears to be a ploy to force users to continue to pay for the desktop software indefinitely if they want to be able to read "saved" mail. AOL has had 5 months to restore this and other features that were available in older versions, and has failed to…
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make it consistent to connect
aol gold is a genuine pain **********. it routinely won't connect even now that i have reinstalled it into my new HP computer 5th generation with Spectrum 5G internet service. Sometimes it will connect the next day-- who knows why. it is very interrupting to my business. Maybe this is a good time to dump aol service.
I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.
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Bug in New Spam Settings
I mistakenly added a word to the list of specific words and phrases (then realized it was a bad idea, as now hundreds of emails are being sent to the Spam Folder). When I try to remove it, I get an error: "We seem to have trouble sending this request. Please try again in 5 minutes. Code: Forbidden." No matter how many times I've tried, the "spam" word I want to delete won't go away! Please fix this!! I can provide a screenshot if you need it.
I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.
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web pages, it goes back the AOL search Results every time!!
Ref # 17777832
issue started in 2021, when i try to open a link it got to the AOL search results when i want to click a link in my favorites, e-mails, other web pages it goes back the AOL search Results
please help this !!! you can see in my call history that i have been dealing with this for a a very long time. please consider a Bata Version i was told about or a patch~ -
All contacts in my mailbox are getting e-mails from me with something from DROPBOX. My IT tech says AOL was hacked. Please advise.
All contacts in my mailbox are getting e-mails from me with something from DROPBOX. I never sent them out. AOL tech checked my computer and said it wasn't compromised . My IT tech says AOL was hacked, because he is getting calls from his clients who use AOL. The same thing is happening to their address books. Please advise.
We have an article dedicated to identifying suspicious activity and how to protect your account from future attacks. Please refer to the article here: https://help.aol.com/articles/account-management-identifying-suspicious-activity
If you need additional assistance for resetting your password, please call AOL Customer Support Team at 1-800-827-6364 Monday through Friday between 8AM to 1AM ET, and Saturday between 8AM and 10PM ET.
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Uninstall older versions ?
Since I have AOL Desktop Gold I want to uninstall my older versions of AOL. I had to call support for problems downloading AOL Desktop Gold and after it was done, they said we aren't suppossed to remove the older versions. Is this true? I don't want excess versions on my computer. Is it OK then to remove them ?
In case you have finished running the import wizard to transfer any emails and other data from the old AOL Desktop to the new one, you can uninstall the AOL Desktop 9.8.2. If you haven’t run the Import Wizard yet, and you need help with that, please follow the steps from the following article: https://help.aol.com/articles/aol-desktop-importing-your-personal-information
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Rapid flashing AOL ads and law suits
I've got three emails open and my desktop email window. There are four, rapidly flashing ads driving me nuts and making me sick to my stomach, so that I can't work. Maybe you, AOL, don't care about that, but are you aware that, for someone with epilepsy, that type of rapid, flashing movement can cause a seizure? And perhaps a law suit? Do you actually believe that those ads sell anything? Maybe people click on them just to try to stop the movement, but if I could stop them long enough to read whose ads they are -- or when…
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Since comments are closed on my issue...
I had reported the following: "Report a Bug" has no confirmation/follow-up, so here is the issue:
I reported this issue in the "Report a Bug" area. Every attachment I attempt to download is corrupted. For example, a 65.7 KB Excel file saves as 2 KB, and no information is present in the file upon opening. This has happened in the last 6 files I downloaded, the most current being today. This is TOTALLY unacceptable! Luckily, I can forward to my work email address...what about the people who have no other email address? This needs fixed immediately! I was asked to… -
I have been an AOL member for over 20 years, and have used your program as my primary email program. Recently, AOL has discontinued the 9.8
I have been an AOL member for over 20 years, and have used your program as my primary email program. Recently, AOL has discontinued the 9.8 desktop version and substituted the new and improved AOL Desktop Gold, for $5 per month.
I find that the new AOL Desktop Gold version is absolutely terrible. There are so many bugs – that I’m not sure if AOL did any kind of beta testing before releasing this garbage.
For example:
In the past versions, when one opened up AOL it would automatically open up the READ tab and you would automatically see all…
Thank you for your feedback, will send it over to the AOL Gold desktop team, making sure the features you mentioned become a priority and will be added in the future releases.
Currently, we don’t have an estimated time frame, but we hope the majority of the features our members are asking for will be implemented soon.
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I am paying for your services and have to read and send mail on IE most of the time because GOLD is currently not able to send mail.
fix AOL Gold.It ruined my computer and nothing works properly.Not to mention that I lost over 100 pieces of important info that did not get transferred. And your search engine does not work most of the time either.Mail can't be read or sent constantly This version of AOL is the worst I have seen in 20 years
I’d like to have one of our Technical Support agents investigate this. Please call our AOL Desktop Gold team at 1-888-265-3733. Our experts are available 24/7 by phone.
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I tried to send (multiple times) messages with bcc typing the group name and when I try to send it comes up as an error. WHY?
Correct problem
This issue is most likely caused by the fact that the email contained too many recipients. AOL does not disclose the number of recipients or emails that can be sent at one time, but we recommend sending the email to a smaller group of recipients. You can split larger groups into multiple emails.
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When I compose an e-mail, I cannot indent the first line of paragaphs using the Tab key. When I try to indent, the cursor disappears!
Allow the tab key to indent at the start of a paragraph
Please check if you have the option enabled. Click on Mail option > Mail Settings > select the General tab > check the option “Use tab key to indent when writing an email”
Changes are saved automatically.
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