AOL 4.0 Help

[Igawa29]

I have saved on CD all my AOL 4.0 email files. On WIN XP I could open the aol.exe file and access all my emails saved on the disk. Now Windows 7 won't allow me to open the aol.exe file. How do I open these emails now? Is there a program out there that I can run that would recognize the format?

 

[Andrzejek]

What's the format of the AOL email files?

Have fun.

---- Andy

 

[DrB0b]

What version of AOL are you trying to run on Windows 7?

"Silence is golden, duct tape is silver...

 

[Igawa29]

I am not sure of the file format since the file is like this:

Igaw.a29

It sort of broke up my screen name into it's own extention.



I was trying to run AOL 4.0 since it ran on my WIN XP no problems. Now I am getting an error since it cannot open AOL 4.0.

I tried downloading the new AOL and importing in, however it doesn't import my e-mail files. The only way I have found to be able to read my emails is to open in wordpad or notepad.

 

[Andrzejek]

If you can open them in Notepad then you are set.

Have fun.

---- Andy

 

[Igawa29]

The only problem with notepad is that the emails are all garbled up. Its a poor man's way to view them. I wasn't sure if there was a quick conversion fix or anything. But like you said at least I can read them, (somewhat at least)

 

[DrB0b]

Download your uninstaller trial and make sure you have completely uninstalled the previous version of AOL. Also run a CCCleaner reg scan to remove any unused reg files.

http://www.ursoftware.com/download.php

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Then go to AOL and download the newest version and try to load them

"Silence is golden, duct tape is silver...