Real Player 10 - First Impressions of AAC Support
Reply #20 – 2004-03-25 07:14:39
ViPER1313 and rjamorim: realsched.exe (160 KB) is the only memory resident program in RealPlayer, but it can easily be disabled. It stays in memory after exiting RealPlayer when auto services or sync to devices are enabled. Otherwise, everything is completely gone after exiting, and there are no update calls "home", just like it should. It refused to go for a long time, I have filed many bugs on this issue because I feel strongly about it, and it has finally been fixed! (at least on all of my computers) nothing stays in memory if you follow the instructions in the post I referred to. RealPlayer installs itself to C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer and a list of DLLs in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Real, one folder in your Application Data (and four DLLs, rmoc3260.dll, pndx5032.dll, pndx5016.dll, pncrt.dll to windows\system32). Apparantly there is also a plugin called RichFX player installed in Internet Explorer's plugin folder, so it does spread out a little. Personally I agree that this is not very nice (most notably the RichFX plugin). I too would have liked one single folder (like Thunderbird or Firefox). rjamorim: I will ask about what kind of information can be obtained from your system, so don't worry about trying again until you hear from me again. No promises, I would like to fix this too, but I personally do not work on any player specific details. I remember though that there are error and crash logs saved in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Real\RealPlayer\ErrorLogs. Please check there and e-mail me the .log files that are there, if any. Thanks!
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