I have Real Player ver. 10 on a Windows XP machine, and on my computer,
Real Player does not start when I start the computer.
I cannot remember how I accomplished this. Real Player may have offered
me a choice when I installed it, but I'm not sure. However it happened,
there must be some way, if only someone can find it.
Martha Conolley
E B Lund wrote:
> Real Player totally puzzles me. Why on earth can't they just let you
> NOT open it at startup? There are all sorts of opportunitites on the
> web to use it as a choice. Why do they force it down our throats? In
> my mind, them not being Microsoft is reason enough to consider using
> them. So why are they so obnoxious? I really don't understand.
>
> End of rant.
>
> Sadly, I rarely use it just because it does change the settings on my
> computer, but if I must, I do, and then remove it from my startup
> programs so it doesn't start the next time I boot up. It seems to
> work, unless there is something going on that I don't know about. Is
> there something I don't know about?
>
> William Closure
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
>
> From: Robert Citkowitz <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2006/09/26 Tue PM 01:16:51 EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Real Player
> Many thanks for your comprehensive reply, Anna.
> I've already got Real Player, and it's nagging me to update it. What's
> the lesser evil, updating or trying to uninstall (I also have Media
> Player and Dell/Musicmatch)?
> Since I already have it, would I be losing any services the others
> don't provide by uninstalling?
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Computer9
> Real Player puts a great deal of stuff all over your machine and
> registry. Even if you uninstall it, it doesn't all come out. It's
> getting nearly as bad as Symantec for invasiveness and tenacity.
> Before you install something new on your PC...
>
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