Gee guys, all Darleen wanted to know was how to turn the darm thing; RPMC 
off.


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From: "Mike Pietruk" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] REAL MESSAGE CENTRE


: Prat
:
: I have never used Real Alternative so I cannot comment on what it can or
: cannot do.
: What I can comment on, from personal experience over 7 or so years of
: Windows use, I have never regretted using the various versions of
: RealPlayer that have come and gone throughout the years.
: In fact, RP is my default player.
:
: And what's this about bulk!  With today's large hds, I hardly could
: consider this an issue.
: I just looked at my hd and RP takes a whopping 33mb of space -- that's
: only 3.3% of 1 gb.
: And with today, 120 gb, 160 gb, 200 gb drives very typical, this hardly
: seems excessive.
:
: For the benefit of readers, there is no necessarily right or wrong choice
: -- it's a matter of perspective.
: What I objected was your suggesting, Prat, that the solution to Doreen's
: complaint was the removal of RealPlayer.
: That's akin to having a massive continual headache and resolving the
: pain with pain killers.
: What needs to be done is addressing what is causing the pain in the first
: place and fixing that.
: And as Lynn has outlined, the steps of eliminating the Message Centers'
: nag msgs are easy to implement.
:
: I have no problem with anyone using Real Alternative.  I have a problem of
: the continual bashing of RealPlayer by elements of the blind community for
: problems the player fixed several years back.
:
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