Or simply go into preferences and disable startcenter and auto-updating.
Also, consider *not* installing RealOne but rather Real8.
I could have sworn I answered this question in depth on another list but I
checked my email archives an must have deleted it...
In short, go to
http://www.real.com and search for where to download older
versions.
It's a bit hard to find older version but be sure that RealOne is most
definitely *not* recommended!
Shimone/Justes
http://www.staticbeats.com
Electronic Music > Digital Culture
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Hime" <hime@charter.net>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] real player question
quoted 19 lines im considering downloading a copy of real player to
> > im considering downloading a copy of real player to
> > use to listen to audio on the net in their format.
> > however, ive been wary of doing so because i hear the
> > program is pretty bad at adware and spam, and ends up
> > running on your computer alll the time in the
> > background, with no way to adjust preferences to avoid
> > such things. are all the horror stories true? i really
> > want to listen to some of the stuff out there in real
> > audio format, but i dont want to screw my computer up
> > just to do that. any advice...?
>
> If you run a Windows where you can do so, reboot into DOS and delete the
> realsched.exe file.
>
>
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