AOL and compressed graphics

The information below and the helpful graphic has been passed along to some AOL users resulting in a better internet experience.

1) Basically ... go to "My AOL", then to preferences, click on the "WWW" button, then from the box that comes up, choose the "Web Graphics" tab. Click on to UNCHECK the box for "use compressed graphics." Then, you must clear your cache! or your browser will show you the website's pages from memory, not a fresh copy of the page.

2) Clearing your cache (memory) files from the AOL browser version 4: Go to the 'MyAOL' icon, preferences, advanced, purge cache. Close your AOL browser, disconnect, then you can re-connect and your cache will be cleared.

3) For AOL 7, it is close to version 6. Click onto Settings, and then Preferences. It takes you to a screen with numerous options. From the left hand column, locate Internet Properties, then the Web Graphics option. Select 'Never Compress Graphics', click on ok.

4) Then, you MUST clear your cache (memory) files from the AOL browser. Or your browser will show you the website's pages from memory, not a fresh copy of the page. To do that with older versions of AOL, it seems you must close your AOL browser by logging off, then log back on again. For the newest versions of AOL, from AOL's FAQ, it says: "This is done by either reducing the browser History to "0" and manually clearing all pages in history by deleting the files in the temporary internet files folder located in the Windows Directory, or, PC users can force a refresh by holding down the CONTROL key on their keyboard and mouse clicking on the AOL browser reload icon. The latter will completely clear all items in history." This is explained in AOL's - Caching - FAQ <http://webmaster.info.aol.com/faq.html#cachingfaq>.