I noticed AOL instant messenger's new interface and was installing this program into my new desktop tonight and realized there was no option to not include the AOL Explorer from installing along with the IM program. All I want is the new instant messenger, nothing more. Any ideas? TIA

I've used Aim Triton Ad Hack before with good success. It also has the benefit of removing all the ads and other garbage.

Or you can just use Trillian or GAIM

Thanks BlueT! I'll give it a shot!

i'm having fun with my "legacy" DeadAIM 4.5

triton is horrible, even with the triton ad hack. then again, i'm a windows classic mode type of guy. triton is a horrible memory resource hog and loads/responds rather slow compared to the ancient aim (non-triton)

i'm also still using deadaim 4.5 along with aim 5.5 something.
http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=aim

i'm actually thinking of switching over to trillian now.

//krunk (^_^x)

I never understand why companies are so intent on running their succesful products into the ground like this. ICQ suffered from horrible bloat that basically killed it before they came out with ICQ lite, by which point the medium was already dead.

I installed Triton on a machine because I wanted to be able to have that person do a video chat with ichat. It was the most horrible piece of bloatware/adware i've ever voluntarily or unvoluntarily installed. Just looking at it and all the popups and little windows it installed made me sick. And it installs 3 firewall exceptions for itself without asking. Unbelievable. And then I learned you need AIM 5.9 because Triton doesn't work with ichat for video chats! So I uninstalled and I felt clean again!

But then I installed AIM 5.9, and now I feel mildly dirty. It's not as bad as Triton, but close. Triton is like they took AIM and said "this is horrible malware, but what could we do to make it WORSE!".

Use GAIM/Trillian (preferably GAIM).

The AIM hack tool does remove a lot of that junk from Triton. But I agree - Trillian (with all its quirks) is much better for day-to-day use.

I don't have any messengers installed. I just use meebo.com now. They just added chat logs to it earlier this month.