Hi Daniel & listers,

These instructions are for pure Windows:

Probably the easiest way to close RealAudio when it gets stubborn is
to press "CONTROL, ALT, and DELETE" to bring up a menu of most
running programs. Then press the letter R, until the focus goes to
RealAudio. Then hit the ENTER key. You'll get a screen with the
option "END TASK." Usually, the focus is on "END TASK" so you can
hit the ENTER key to close RealAudio. Sometimes you'll have to do
this a process a few times, but it's pretty quick and easy:

1)  CONTROL, ALT, DELETE
2)  r ('til the focus is on RealAudio)
3)  ENTER
4)  ENTER (if the focus is on END TASK)

I'm sure you know that hitting CONTROL, ALT, and DELETE twice will
restart your computer.

BY THE WAY...

The following is from a newsletter called "Lockergnome" and tells
how to stop RealAudio from sucking a lot of resources:

"Bruce Feirstein removes a resource-draining icon. RealAudio used
to be the bee's knees. Now, it's more like a hornet's nest. With
privacy issues and fluffy features bogging down the binary, it
looks as though the player will work better on-demand. In the
menu, select View, then Preferences. Toss your cookies in the
Support tab if you're so inclined, but don't leave the dialog
until you've disabled the StartCenter permanently. "Ignore dire
warnings about the coming apocalypse." Turn it off; save precious
memory for other (more important) applications. Another piggy?
Microsoft's latest Windows Media Player. In Windows 2000, WiMP
v7.0 (WMPLAYER.EXE) sucks up 10MB of system memory before it plays
a file. Compare this to WiMP v6.4 (MPLAYER2.EXE) which initially
takes up only 3MB. Don't come whining to me when you say your
computer is too slow -- and I see that your System Tray has more
icons than the average folder. Get real. Er, get rid of Real.
Kinda."


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