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Auto Signon and Stored Password in America Online (AOL)?

I am Ben C. Wilson and I want to have my pass word be keyed in automatically. How do I do it?

Dave's Answer:

Well, hello there Ben! There are a couple of different ways you can solve your dilemma, the easiest of which is to get to the signon screen in America Online:

then type in your password and click on the option Save Password, as shown here:

America Online (AOL) Signon Screen: Save Password

That's your basic problem solved.

Now, what you might want to do instead is either have AOL connect automatically when you start up your computer each time or connect automatically each time you start up the AOL software (I never recommend the former option, actually, because it's too easy for you to be online for days on end without realizing it).

Under the Safety menu, choose Settings and you'll see a rather huge list of different areas you can tweak:

America Online (AOL) Auto Signon Settings

As the cursor shows, you'll want to select Start-up Settings, which will lead you to this useful window:

At this point you can open AOL when you're connected to the Internet each time, automatically sign up with a specific screen name, and even enable or disable Fast Start, as you may prefer. Make the changes you want, then click on Save and you're good to go!

Important note: Any time you opt to store your password, it's obviously quite important to ensure that your machine is secure because anyone who can get to it can also start up the program and masquerade as you and access your personal email and files.

Hope that helps you get set up properly with AOL!

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Comments

my brother has comcast,,, i am a member of aol ,i am trying to sign on to aol on his computer ,,, what a joke ,,,,, can you help ?? Nick

Posted by: nick at August 5, 2006 8:32 AM

Dave,
I use AOL 9.0 Optimized SE and for some reason every time I start up my computer AOL automatically start up. I hate this because it slows down my start up. I have looked everywhere for the setting to change and I can't find it can you please help me?

Posted by: Catherine at August 27, 2006 9:21 PM

I am not getting the new super buddies i have plenty of memory an ram why aren,t they automatally going to the superbuddies page?

Posted by: janis at October 30, 2006 7:16 PM

Hello - I am with AOL but using I/E and O/E for e-mail and the internet. If I sign on via aol it goes directly through the 7 steps and connects but if I go through the icon in the systems tray it stops at step 4, a screen comes up telling me to fix my password, and on doing this the steps are completed and I get on line. I would like to have the icon in the systems tray work the same way as getting on line via aol. Also the screen for All the Web has changed and I don't know how to get the previous screen. It is now All the Web Live Search and I want to change it ?????

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Posted by: kim at March 12, 2007 4:12 AM

I am trying to auto start up to aol when I boot up my pc, I had this once but seem to have lost it, can you help please

Posted by: annette at August 19, 2007 2:52 AM

Hi Dave. my AOL settings box is not the same as yours, in my startup box there is no reference to the fast start,and auto sign on. I wish to disable the fast start so how do I go about it
Thanks Ian

Posted by: Ian M at March 21, 2008 8:42 AM

Dave can you please have aol stop sending me sign up for aol 9.0.? I dont want it. I cant get on the computer without cancelling it...what a pain in the neck..I really appreciate it...

Posted by: rochelle at October 8, 2008 10:12 PM

I can't get my stored password out of my sign on screen, and I do not have the aol 9.0 security edition that you mentioned. My sign on screen only asks for my screen name, and password on my 9.0 version.

Please help! I am going CRAZY trying to fix this problem.

Posted by: Sandy Kirkwood at March 5, 2009 10:22 AM

I can not get my saved password to work, I have to reenter every time i sign on.

Posted by: george williams at March 9, 2009 11:04 AM

Hi i am sure i could access internet explorer without signing on to my AOL 9.0 .but now when i click the I.E icon a.o.l starts up first then only can i access I.E am i confused.

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