AOL Desktop Beta Chat #3
Posted Apr 15th 2008 4:38PM by Laura Peterson
Filed under: Beta News
Interested in shaping the next version of AOL Desktop? Have questions about the current AOL Desktop Beta? Want to talk to the team behind it all?
Chat with the AOL Desktop team, other Beta testers, and the AOL Beta community managers tomorrow afternoon as we launch our third open chat session on the heels of the second AOL Desktop (codename: Nexus) Beta release.
What: AOL Desktop Beta Chat #3
Who: AOL Beta testers, AOL Beta community managers, AOL Desktop team, and YOU!
When: Wednesday April 16 @ 4:00 pm Eastern (1:00 pm Pacific)
Where: All details can be found at http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=chat See you there,
Laura
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Laura Peterson is a Principal Product Manager in AOL Products and the lead product manager on the AOL Desktop software. She works with AOL Product Development, Product Design, Quality Assurance, AOL Beta, Marketing, and AOL Help to create, talk about, launch, and support the AOL software! She also responds to as much member feedback and questions as she can via email, IM, and, of course, the blog itself. Walking the hallways of AOL since 2003, her previous assignments include work on the AOL 9.0 Optimized toolbar, AOL's voice services products, and other software releases such as 9.0 VR and the first AOL Mail and AIM Gadget.
Doran Butuche is the lead product manager on Desktop Gadgets, those cool mini-applications that live in the Vista Sidebar, where he is responsible for product definition and management.
Summer is a Sr. Manager for AOL Member Communications. While she has no ties directly to the product development team, she has been a contributor to many AOL blogs over the last few years and is excited to bring a non-product team perspective to the Desktop blog.
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1. I installed and have been running 10.0 for over 1 month now without any problems until a few days ago. Now whenever I open 10.0, and the welcome screen opens, the program freezes. If I am quick enough to close the welcome screen before it fully loads, I can go to other websites unless I go to an AOL one such as news or Finance, then it freezes again. Have tried multiple things to currect such as delete and re-install, system restore points, one-click fixes, deleting flash player and re-installing to no avail. Read somehwere that this happens because of the flash ads but AOL 9.1 still works with the ads. I love 10.0, anyone have an idea how to correct? I'm now using IE7 but none of my favorites are there.
Posted at 5:51PM on Apr 17th 2008 by WayneeB2
2. the new desktop V13 for mac was downloaded tonight and it does not launch, so now I am stuck with web mail. The previous version 12 worked just fine. We need version 14 NOW !!!
Posted at 10:17PM on Apr 17th 2008 by breckwngs
3. I recently installed your new AOL desktop and I dislike it! How can I get rid of this "new" version and return to my previous version of AOL (AOL 9.1) without losing my addressed, etc.
Posted at 2:24PM on Apr 18th 2008 by Naley
4. I had to uninstall and reinstall my AOL software on my Windows XP computer yesterday because I was having problems with it. After my system successfully installed 9.0, I went to Keyword upgrade or update or something and the only update available was AOL Desktop. I downloaded it, but I am NOT AT ALL HAPPY with it. It is constantly freezing and shutting itself down, response time is totally unacceptable (way, way, way too slow - even for my slow computer!), totally unacceptable amount of flash ads which give me a headache, and it is almost impossible to forward mail. I've been an AOL customer since 1993, and if this is the best you can do for upgrades, I'm very likely to take my business to some other provider. Why, when you upgrade something, must you ALWAYS insist on changing the layout, performance, functions, etc.? I'm going to send this same msg to the feedback people, but wanted to let some other poor schmuck who might be considering using it that it's not a good program!
Posted at 6:57PM on Apr 25th 2008 by JUDYTANK2
5. I know that there's quite a group of us that aew wondering if another Staff Chat on Nexus is on the horizon yet. It's been almost 2 weeks sine the last one now. . . Franki
Posted at 10:34AM on Apr 29th 2008 by Franki
6. I recently installed your new AOL desktop and I extremely dislike it! How can I get rid of this "new" version and return to my previous version of AOL 9
Posted at 12:14PM on Apr 29th 2008 by armenbad
7. With AOL Desktop, the minute I navigate out of AOL mail, AOL freezes up.. I uninstalled and reinstalled and does it agian.. I too want 9.1 back..
Posted at 11:43PM on May 4th 2008 by Wayne Lange
8. Those of you wishing to return to 9.0 or 9.1 can do so at any time by going to the "AOL" folder in your Windows Start Menu and clicking the shortcut to launch the older versions of the software.
For more info, check out one of my earlier articles on this:
http://desktopblog.aol.com/2008/01/14/how-do-i-go-back-to-using-9-0-or-9-1-after-installing-desktop/
Thanks!
Posted at 5:23PM on May 7th 2008 by Laura Peterson
9. I have your new E mail down load. I dont like it. Hard to get favorites incorporated. The deletion system is arachic and moves slow. The whol e-mails system is slow. I would like the old system back is you can down load it to me.
Ed Jacobs
mytime41@aol.com
Posted at 10:27AM on May 8th 2008 by ed jacobs