Real Player Starts at Bootup?

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I don't recall or even see that I've scheduled RP to start up at boot. I
don't see a task scheduled. Maybe it's not done with the Control Panel
Scheduler?
 
W. Watson said:
I don't recall or even see that I've scheduled RP to start up at boot. I
don't see a task scheduled. Maybe it's not done with the Control Panel
Scheduler?
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Check in the options for Real Player for a setting to not have it run at
startup. Otherwise remove it from the Run key in the registry.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
 
Maybe I'll just remove RealPlayer from my system. How in the world would
something like this get into start up anyway?
 
W. Watson said:
Maybe I'll just remove RealPlayer from my system. How in the world would
something like this get into start up anyway?
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For some programs the installation routine does this without asking if you
want it. You should be able to stop it from starting automatically without
uninstalling it.
 
W. Watson said:
Maybe I'll just remove RealPlayer from my system. How in the world
would something like this get into start up anyway?
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Here are some options:

1. Configure RealPlayer so it doesn't always start:

Go to Tools>Preferences>Automatic Services. Go to Message Center (at the
left panel), click to "Configure Message Center", and uncheck "Check for
new messages."

Go to Tools>Preferences>AutoUpdate. Uncheck "Automatically download and
install important updates."

And you may or may not need to disable a startup entry in msconfig
called TkBellExe (realsched.exe).

2. Uninstall RealPlayer, then install the less obtrusive Real
Alternative:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm
 
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