Cleaning AIM

[bin4spam]

Like a lot of other people, I'm not happy about AOL putting all this trash like Viewpoint Viewer and WeatherBug into their IM client.

Is there someone out there that has a prepackaged version of AIM that removes all that garbage or is there an easy way to install it without it?

I've tried someone's earlier suggestion of removing the folder sysfiles and packaging in a silent RAR SFX file. What this does is cause rendering problems and in the newest AIM I get these 2 IE windows that popup that I can't find the option to prevent them. They are similar to AIM Today but even more useless.

I've also tried that WinInstall program but that doesn't want to install for some reason. It gets stuck on the personal info page.

[a06lp]

check my post:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=28635

i don't get any popups using that method. try to use the dl version if you can.

[Tark]

Why not just do away with AOL IM altogether and use GAIM. It has a version 1.0 windows port which is pretty sweet. I've been using it since version 0.83 once I found out about AOL's crappy installation policies.

[DisabledTrucker]

or better yet, just do away with AIM altogether and use Yahoo!IM.

[Tark]

or better yet, just do away with AIM altogether and use Yahoo!IM.

forgot to mention that GAIM is actually a mutli-IM program, although I use it exclusively for AIM. It supports AIM, Yahoo Msgr, ICQ, Jabber, MSN and a few other protocols. May sound confusing, but it's rather simple to use. I highly recommend

checking it out.

[bin4spam]

I'd use GAIM instead if it actually supported File transfers.

I tested the recent Win32 build (1.0) and it still doesn't work correctly.

[tjhart85]

You could create an AUTOIT script. Thats what I did.

AUTOIT is a coding language designed exactly for this kind of stuff (unattended isntalls that do EXACTLY what you want them to), so you'll get what you want, and its really easy to use. This script turns off weatherbug, but leaves the WILDTANGENT GAMES thing on, i figured i might want to play them eventually. With a few simple mods, you can make it do exactly what you want.

My script can be seen below.

I would like to say "sorry" in advance for the lack of comments, but I don't see the point of commenting things out when i don't originally plan on releasing my scripts.

Just goto google and look up AUTOIT, and download it, its a simple program.

Run("aim553595.exe")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger Software License Agreement")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Software License Agreement","&Yes","Button1")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger Installation")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","&Next >","Button1")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger Install Components")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Install Components","AIM WeatherBug (powered by WeatherBug)","Button4")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Install Components","&Next >","Button1")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger Installation")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","&Next >","Button1")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger Installation")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","I'm permanently connected through a LAN.","Button5")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","&Next >","Button1")

Sleep(1000)

Send("{TAB}")

Send("90210")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","Make Netscape.com my homepage.","Button1")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","&Next >","Button2")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger Installation")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","Install AIM icons to Start Menu","Button2")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","&Next >","Button4")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger Installation")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger Installation","&Next >","Button1")

Winwait("AOL Instant Messenger")

ControlClick("AOL Instant Messenger","&Next >","Button1")