Real Player will behave if you enter the program preferences and poke around
a bit to keep it out of startup. I use a program called Viddi Radio Player
that uses some Real Player files, so I need to keep it installed, but it
hasn't been in the tray in quite a while.
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The curse of Realplayer is exactly that, every time you use it the program
sets itself up to run at startup.  My personal advice would be to uninstall
it.



>However, once you or a file opens up Real Player, it will be automatically
>reactivated in your startup file and you will again need to deactivate it
in
>MSCONFIG. You get to MSCONFIG through 'start', 'run', 'startup'.
>
>Tom Mayer
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tony Mayer" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 8:03 PM
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Real Player
>
>
>This is the perfect use for MSCONFIG.  You can disable it selectively
>from the startup that way :)
>
>Tony Mayer
>Sysop
>The Magic FunHouse BBS
>http://bbs.magicom.net
>
>
>
>[log in to unmask] wrote:
>> "One of these days, I have to check the archives about how to disable
that
>&#E*&#@ RealPlayer that loads every time I start up."
>>
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