I don't know of a "manual" one click solution, although there might be one.

You can disable any hardware attached or installed in the machine by using the Control Panel->System->Hardware Manager and then locate the particular device in the Hardware Manager window list, highlight it, RightClick and choose "disable".

A neat free program for stopping undesired background programs is called EndItAll -- the version for XP is called EndItAll2, a websearch should bring up the download sight. You have to experiment with it at first to select which programs on the list you need to kill when working with music hosts and which ones you need to tell EndItAll to leave running, but it works a treat. Only problem is that when done with the music programs there is no "Reverse EndItAll" button, you have to reboot the machine to get those programs back and running. Still, I use it quite a bit when recording, even from within my Recording Profile, because certain things still start running in there when I boot into the Profile. Fortunately, I only have to resort to EndItAll when wanting to record many multiple tracks at the same time here, most of the time when working as a "one man show" recording one track in at a time, the Profile ends enough things that it is not all that problematic.

EndItAll2 -- If your AOL thingy is listed in its programs list, there's a oneclick solution.


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