RealPlayer has taken over my PC!!!

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Chris J Brady

Help - RealPlayer has taken over my PC!!!

Please can someone advise. Ever since installing RealPlayer I can't switch
to using Windows Media Player for WMA / WMV files. If I attempt to
re-associate these files with WMP using the Windows Explorer / Folder
Options / File Types when I next log back into my account RealPlayer has
taken over again. And the problem with RP is that it crashes whenever it
opens a WMA / WMV file. How can I associate these files with WMP -
permanently. Everything I've tried does not last - RP keeps taking over.

Many thanks - C.J.Brady
 
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Opinicus

Chris J Brady said:
Help - RealPlayer has taken over my PC!!!
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Uninstall RealPlayer and any other "Real" software and roll back to a
restore point before the installation took place.

Real products are invasive and arrogant. There is no content offered in Real
format that could entice me to install them on any system I'm in charge of.
 
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Chris J Brady

Many thanks you for your advice - I have done precisely that - I removed
RealPlayer completely - and then during the re-install when asked if I
wanted RP to be the default player I said 'no.'' YET IT STILL INSTALLED
ITSELF AS THE DEFAULT!!!!!!! And it still crashes on WMV files. Trouble is
there is some streaming audio / video that I do need - such as that from BBC
Radio 7. No other player seems to play these. CJB.
 
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theplectrum

Chris J Brady said:
Many thanks you for your advice - I have done precisely that - I removed
RealPlayer completely - and then during the re-install when asked if I
wanted RP to be the default player I said 'no.'' YET IT STILL INSTALLED
ITSELF AS THE DEFAULT!!!!!!! And it still crashes on WMV files. Trouble is
there is some streaming audio / video that I do need - such as that from
BBC Radio 7. No other player seems to play these. CJB.

Opinicus said:
Uninstall RealPlayer and any other "Real" software and roll back to a
restore point before the installation took place.

Real products are invasive and arrogant. There is no content offered in
Real format that could entice me to install them on any system I'm in
charge of.
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Right click on the file you want to open > Open With > choose the programme
you want to open the file with > make sure the "always opn ...... box is
ticked

Cheers,
jerry
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