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yankeeharp
June 18th, 2007, 04:14 AM
I used to use Real Player Basic. I have uninstalled it, but it keeps coming back, along with adding itself to My Favorites in IE and a piece of spam lite. I suspect it returns when IE is used, but don't know for sure. Would any of you know how to remove Real permanently so it doesn't keep reinstalling itself?
Tnx
Judy G. Russell
June 18th, 2007, 10:38 AM
I used to use Real Player Basic. I have uninstalled it, but it keeps coming back, along with adding itself to My Favorites in IE and a piece of spam lite. I suspect it returns when IE is used, but don't know for sure. Would any of you know how to remove Real permanently so it doesn't keep reinstalling itself? TnxMake sure you (a) uninstall using Add/Remove Programs and then (b) delete anything that remains of the program folders and then (c) reboot. There's an auto-update feature that isn't deleted by add/remove that may be the culprit here.
jdh
June 19th, 2007, 01:12 AM
I used to use Real Player Basic. I have uninstalled it, but it keeps coming back, along with adding itself to My Favorites in IE and a piece of spam lite. I suspect it returns when IE is used, but don't know for sure. Would any of you know how to remove Real permanently so it doesn't keep reinstalling itself?
Tnx Another thing you could do to "slow it down" would be to block it from accessing the Internet, by telling your Firewall to block it from using the Internet.
I don't think the built-in firewall in Windows XP will let you block specific programs from using the network, but other free firewalls such as the free versions of Zone Alarm or Kerio should let you block outgoing requests to the network in addition to the standard to be expected behavior of a firewall of controlling incoming network traffic.
Some of the multimedia softwares will also try to access the internet to find title and artist info for music and films you have on your hard disk.
You can configure your media players (using the generic meaning of the term) to forget about looking up such info on the net and that will help keep down unwanted accesses by your music and film playing software to the internet to collect such info.
Another place to look is in the various places where "startup" programs are listed in the registry , etc. MSCONFIG.EXE will let you modify which programs start up, but be careful, don't take a necessary file out of the list.
I use the startup fixing tool in Spybot Search & Destroy to fix my list of startup programs, because it usually tells me which programs are important and what their purpose is (at least for programs that are in the startup lists in the windows registry).
DH
yankeeharp
June 24th, 2007, 03:34 PM
There's an auto-update feature that isn't deleted by add/remove that may be the culprit here.Indeed there was. That worked. Thank you very much.
Judy G. Russell
June 24th, 2007, 04:20 PM
Indeed there was. That worked. Thank you very much.Excellent. Glad to help.
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