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If you are a beginner, you would certainly want to know how you can easily achieve a successful AOL login. There are many ways to do it while sometimes many users face problems in accessing their email accounts if they have not mastered the steps properly. The AOL mail login page is found at http://mail.aol.com.
An AOL mail service that is free, an AOL login is an email service that is web-based. So you can access a free AOL email, all that is needed is a mobile device or a computer with a web browser program such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Google Chrome, and an internet connection.
Setting Up AOL Email Account
1. Open a web browser and go to the AOL Login home page login.aol.com.
2. It is not a guarantee that the page will appear as that in slide 1. However, you should simply locate the “mail” from the page and click on it.
3. Once it is loaded, an AOL mail login page opens (slide 2). Click on the “sign up for free account” link. An online sign up form pops up (slide 3). Alternatively, you can click on the “get free email” link at the bottom of the AOL home page and it leads you to the AOL mail sign in page directly.
4. Sometimes, you may find someone’s AOL email account instead of the registration page. In such circumstances, you need to sign out first (the sign out link is located below the AOL logo) and then reload the page. In cases where the form still doesn’t show up, you should delete the cache and the passwords or just use a different browser program.
5. On the form, enter your first name, middle initials (if any) and the last name in the appropriate fields.
6. The next field requires you to enter a username for your prospective email address. My AOL mail account has my username. Yours too has to have your username. The format of the AOL email address is usually USERNAME@aol.com. It’s only the username that you can choose. The other part is constant for all AOL email accounts.
7. AOL has millions of subscribers. For you to use the email account, the username should not be similar to that of someone else. Reading on how to make usernames is recommended. On entering the preferred username, the AOL automatically checks if the username is being used by someone else. In case the AOL fails to carry out the searching automatically, click on the “check” button. The service can also offer you suggestions on the usernames to be used. Characters such as the underscore (_) and the sign (.) can be used. Finding of a username may take quite a while, but you should not get disheartened.
8. Once you get an AOL login username that fits the bill, rejoice!
9. The email account requires a password for security. I do not wish for other people to access my AOL email account, enter in to my AOL mail inbox and read my messages and other information, do you? Read on how to make strong passwords which are hard for other people to guess. As you type your password in the field (slide 9), the characters get replaced by dots and asterisks. The strength bar indicates the strength of your password.
10. Enter the password once again in the next field for verification. Then hit the “next” button. You have thus created an AOL mail login.
How to Create AOL Email Account
1. Go to the AOL homepage at https://www.aol.com/ and at the top center of the page you will find the “Sign up” link which upon clicking should take you to the following page.
2. Enter your first name and last name, choose your preferred username and check for its availability before proceeding to create a strong password and then clicking the “Next” button to go to the following page.
3. Fill in the few requested personal details and to help protect your AOL email account choose a security question for which you have to provide an answer. Your mobile number is optional but also helps in the protection of your account as text messages can be send to you if needed.
4. After clicking the “Next” button you are taken to 2 more screens where you just enter some characters to confirm you are a real person, and then you end up at the AOL homepage. Close to the top left corner of the page you should locate and click the “Mail” icon which should take you to a welcome screen.
5. You can now access the main AOL login which looks as shown below and start enjoying various features for creating and sending mails all at the same place.
The advantage of AOL email login is that it can be accessed in all modern browsers, can serve as an AIM account to login to the AIM chat client since it has a 100% compatibility with Apple iChat and also to access other AOL services. Below are instructions and screenshots, arranged in a step by step pattern to guide you when setting up the account.
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