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


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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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