How to remove aoltsmon error

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aoltsmon.exe file information

The process AOL TopSpeed(TM) Monitor belongs to the software AOL TopSpeed(TM) Monitor or America Online's Digital or AOL TopSpeed Monitor or LCK or AOL Uninstaller or aoltsmon.exe by America Online, Inc (www.aol.com).

Description: aoltsmon.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files\Common Files" - e.g. C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\TopSpeed\2.0\. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 100016 bytes (99% of all occurrence), 94302 bytes.
The program is not visible. The file is not a Windows system file. File aoltsmon.exe is a Verisign signed file. aoltsmon.exe is digitally signed. aoltsmon.exe is able to hide itself, monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 28% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

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User Comments

Turn off: Start / run / msconfig / services Un-check the box
jerry

Took up 100% of cpu - want to get rid of it.
Donnie

Worthless waste of system resources following an uninstall of the AOL software. Other example of AOL programmers' incompetance/arrogance.
J Sherman

Took up all available CPU resources to run. Just awful.
contra

HIgh CPU usage, even when AOL isn't running. As an AOL user you should in general leave this task alone. If you are an advanced user and do not use AOL’s own browser but use, instead, a browser like Mozilla or FireFox which both have inbuilt web acceleration caching of the type used by AOL TopSpeed technology, then you can disable this service.

it's associated with aol's top speed
deefex

It takes up 50% of my CPU time and also uses up to 90% of my page file AND RAM
Mike

is this file safe to allow access
Raymond A. Parker

discovered a way to get rid of the aoltsmon.exe
jose y. capuras

aoltsmon.exe is a process associated with AOL TopSpeed from America Online. AOL TopSpeed is a software that increases the download speed for your standard 56.6K dial-up connection..
SDBear (further information)

It is running in my processes and taking up 50% of my cpu's ability. It didn't used to do this and I wonder if I need it running. It doesn't show up in the registry editor.... dunno
Cody

Something that came with a recent AOL 9.0 build of AOL. It's harmless but im not sure exactly what it does.
DC the MCSE

Summary: 2 users think aoltsmon.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 3 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 2 users suspect danger. 5 users doesn't grade aoltsmon.exe ("not sure about it").

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