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Originally posted by cjolley @Brian: It could have been worse. MS could reasonably charged more for the "Reduced Media Edition" because of the cost of taking the stuff out.
Originally posted by cjolley ... @Brian: It could have been worse. MS could reasonably charged more for the "Reduced Media Edition" because of the cost of taking the stuff out.
Chuck
Apparently there was 140 something files removed in order to rip out Windows Media.
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I just check the properties on the folder where Real player is installed and it has over 2000 files. And that total doesn't include whatever might have been installed to the windows/system32 folder.
Jesus.. I would rather pay for my media player and have it be a simple affair that just WORKS. RealPlayer itself has got to be the biggest adware out there.
I'd guess that the Real Player folder has some cached data. My folder size is 66.9MB. I do recall recently uninstalling the version I had and installing the latest version from their website. And then not using it more than a handfull of times.
Does that mean their uninstaller doesn't clean up after itself properly too?
Originally posted by KvHagedorn RealPlayer itself has got to be the biggest adware out there.
Have you tried RP10? They've removed all/most of that crap.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
I refuse to have Real spyware on any of my systems for 2 or 3 years now. It simply tries to take over the whole 'puter and sends my firewall crazy. If someone sends me an RM file, I just don't look at it, for my own peace of mind.
I'm not really keen on WMP either, but that's another story. It doesn't object if you deny the single port it seeks to open on the firewall.
There's no reason to ignore RM files. Go download "Real Alternative." It's quite good.
Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.
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