Free AOL Desktop is being discontinued

If you’re still using the AOL Desktop program, confine mind that the corporate is slowly discontinuing the free service.

Last April, it started pushing random waves of users to upgrade to AOL Desktop Gold ($4.99 per month after a 30-day trial) or to instead use their free AOL.com services. At some point, they're going to stop email support on the older free AOL Desktop versions, but that date hasn’t been released yet.Keep in mind, AOL isn't discontinuing its free email service via the AOL.com Mail website, which is really an alternate to AOL Desktop.If you’re using AOL Desktop and you would like the very minimum amount of change to your AOL experience, perhaps signup for AOL Desktop Gold when you’re given the ultimatum by AOL. The Gold version is extremely almost like the prior versions and your data is migrated over. I did notice some changes to the check in , Email, and IM interfaces, but I’d call those relatively minor in comparison to the present free AOL Desktop version 9.8.If you don’t want to pay the $4.99 per month fee to use AOL Desktop Gold, believe migrating to the free email and other services they provide via the AOL.com Mail website. The AOL Desktop is simply basically a shell interface to AOL.com, HuffingtonPost.com, and other third-party websites anyway. most of the AOL Desktop features and content are accessible directly on the web via a typical browser , like Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox. Furthermore, your email, address book, and instant messenger (IM) data is already automatically synced with the AOL.com services.There’s basically nothing you would like to try to to to form the change from the free AOL Desktop to the AOL.com services, besides learning the way to access and use them. to urge started, go to www.aol.com, click the Mail (envelope) icon within the upper-right of the web site , and check in together with your usual AOL screenname and password. you'll also go on to https://mail.aol.com.On the AOL.com Mail website you ought to see an equivalent messages in your Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Spam, and Trash folders as you'd see within the AOL Desktop versions. you ought to also see an inventory of Contacts, which should include an equivalent people from your Address Book within the AOL Desktop Gold Download  versions. On the AOL Mail website you'll also utilize AIM for fast messaging almost like that offered within the AOL Desktop versions. You’ll probably notice a couple of new AOL features also , like Calendar, Events, and To-Do lists.There are some noticeable differences within the AOL.com Mail website in comparison with the AOL Desktop versions. as an example , if you've got any messages stored within the Saved on My PC folders on the AOL Desktop versions, those aren’t synced with AOL.com Mail, but you'll keep the free AOL Desktop installed for archive purposes. You’ll also find that your favorites from the AOL Desktop versions don’t sync with the favorites list on the AOL.com Mail website. Furthermore, there could be a couple of missing features, like AOL Chatrooms, which appear to only be accessible via the AOL Download  versions.

If you would like help with transitioning from the free AOL Desktop to the Gold version or to AOL.com Mail website, give us or your computer tech a call.