Yes I'd do it as Fritzzs says
I am in the UK which
"may see" this next year?
Quite a lot of the upgrades for "dial-up" users are already on Broadband
But with AOL dropping Broadband in North America
Also with the SP2 update for XP issue not been addressed
I think this is a "BandAid" of an update trying to solve a lot of issues
from what I read this is the final version before AOL 10 (have seen no betas being on test yet) or they are going to stick with AOL 9 until Microsoft releases Longhorn then start work on 10?
So is it worth it?
People that will do best is the users on Dial-up
I have the details here Not sure if they'll be letting Dial-up use the
Macafee Firewall? But as you are going from 7 to 9 you'll be exploring for quite a while
The IM and Email sections are easy to use (excellent Spam divert service)Parental Controls are a lot easier to set up
And very importantly the Program is Stable
Repeating what Fritzzs and Myself said earlier
Do the download!
As regard moving your PFC files over, You may have to ask AOL tech support?
I have done v.7 to v.8 had to make backup copies of the file to the Desktop then Drag them into the new Program
There was a change from Version 8 where all the Mailbox contact addresses were kept on AOLs server together with the mailboxes
This meant if you upgrade or reload the mailboxes get "carried over " onto the new version or reload and all your Buddy list/address book names (Have to do a manual login)
The question for the AOL Tech people is "How Do I Transfer my contact Address book into AOL 9 from AOL 7?"
AOL Favorites save these separately click on The Manage button at the foot of the Favorites frame and follow the intructions to save a PFC file ( Save it to a place you can find easy)
Reloading them will take you a few seconds (and you have that file as a back up
)
AOL 9 seems to have simplifyed many jobs the would take an age on anything before AOL 8
And it even has a "self-fix" Wizard running off the Help section
Loading time for the New Software will be about 5 minutes
And unless you have never done an upgrade before
click
"Sign on as an existing member" Other wise you'll get the new member blurb
OK? and your old settings won't carry over
But in you "Jumping" a version you may need advice from AOL to set up things in the account
The Old version is kept alive when the new version supecedes it.Is deletable but keep it until things settle down in the new version
To reopen or delete the old program go to "Add or Remove programs" Find the AOL (choose which version to remove?) entry, select the item (they are dated) and you'll be left with the current or older version in running order
