Real Player

[Manny]

I don't recall ever installing Real Player Basic, and I don't want to pay a
monthly subscription fee for updating it. Still it seems intrusive and
redundant for much of what (I think) it does. I see that it can be uninstalled.
Has anyone uninstalled it? What are the consequences?

Thanks,

Manny

 

[Chris Lanier]

sure, you can uninstall it. the only consequence is an stream video or
audio that requires it will not work. You dont have to pay anything for
real Player, it's a free product. Real just wants you to buy the paid
version., They will also send you all kinds of spam.

 

[rory]

Their dang icon installed itself in my Control Panel, so I uninstalled the
program. Consequence: I feel MUCH better, and that blinking systray icon is
gone, too.

 

[Manny]

Chris, you hit the nail on the head. Not only does it reappear blinking on my
system tray, but it would appear as a starting program on booting Windows. I
figured out how to stop it through msconfig, but a day or two later, there it
was again! Then there are the repeated requests for updating no matter how I
configure it through preferences.

Manny

 

[rory]

I finally located RealPlayer somewhere, perhaps in My Computer, and that
last, desperate deletion, astoundingly, did the trick.

 

[Chris Lanier]

you seem to be asking different question. you asked if you could uninstall
it. my answer is yes, if you wish for it not to load during the start, you
need to disable thaat feature inside Real's Player, msconfig will not help.

for more support i would suggest contacting Real.

 

[Maureen Goldman]

Their dang icon installed itself in my Control Panel, so I uninstalled the
program. Consequence: I feel MUCH better, and that blinking systray icon is
gone, too.

Much of Real Player's intrusiveness (like the systray icon) can be
removed via the various configuration settings. Whenever I've
installed it, I've just said no to everything except Real being the
default player for its own .ram sound files. Sometimes had to say no
twice, mind. It was the best player for some .avi files I was sent, so
I was willing to wrestle with it a bit.

 

[Voice of the Mysterons]

Yeah. There is some good online advice here too about taming real player:

http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=1635

(sorry if this has already been mentioned).

 

[rory]

Thanks.
Not old news to some of us!

Yeah. There is some good online advice here too about taming real player:

http://www.tweakxp.com/display.aspx?id=1635

(sorry if this has already been mentioned).


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[Mike]

If you keep real player disable TkBell.exe from your
startup menu It is SPYWARE (SPAM)

 

[Les Herrman]

I don't recall ever installing Real Player Basic, and I don't want to pay a
monthly subscription fee for updating it. Still it seems intrusive and
redundant for much of what (I think) it does. I see that it can be uninstalled.
Has anyone uninstalled it? What are the consequences?

Thanks,

Manny

Yes you did install it.

AOL installs it by default because it is used for much of the video
streaming content on AOL.

If you uninstall it, AOL will complain and re-install it the next time
you start AOL.

 

[rory]

I may have outfoxed them, because I turned off my machine last night, and
Real is still nowhere to be found!

 

[Jim in Canada]

I have uninstalled it with no consequences. I then installed JetAudio 5
basic to view or listen to rm files. It does not play the embedded files in
IE, but I can live without that (and the spyware)

Jim