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Old 14 January 2007, 05:52 PM
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Angry realPlayer

Why the foook does it install and take over everything EVEN THOUGH you quite clearly un-check the boxes that say if you want it to be your default player??

Needed it yesterday to listen to the Football on Charlton radio - nice to here how BORO smashed them into the Championship

Bloody cheatin lyin *******s ....... confused.com is the same - I said do NOT disclose my e-mail ...... what do they do???? YES!!! Every spam there is is now on my once CLEAN account!!!! Warning - set up a hotmail account called Insurance or something!!
Old 14 January 2007, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
nice to here how BORO smashed them into the Championship

Old 14 January 2007, 06:24 PM
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i use Real Alternative 1.51
Old 14 January 2007, 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
confused.com is the same - I said do NOT disclose my e-mail ...... what do they do???? YES!!! Every spam there is is now on my once CLEAN account!!!! Warning - set up a hotmail account called Insurance or something!!
I use a different email address every time I have to give one (I have a number of domains set up so this is easy) and am yet to receive any spam addressed to the one I used for confused, a few reminders from insurance companies about their quotes but that's it.

Totally agree about RealPlayer though - totally horrible, makes Microsoft look fair and reasonable
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Realplayer really sucks. why the BBC insist on still using it beggars belief!
Old 15 January 2007, 12:01 PM
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Go to Start/Run... Type in msconfig and press enter. Go to the tab Startup and uncheck the real player box. Restart your computer and it won't run!
Old 15 January 2007, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by every1sgottablue1
Go to Start/Run... Type in msconfig and press enter. Go to the tab Startup and uncheck the real player box. Restart your computer and it won't run!
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For avoiding e-mail spam use mailinator.com
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Realplayer is to computers what Pete Lewis is to Scoobynet

No matter what you do you can't get rid of it
It pops up in places without being asked
Behaviour defies logic
No-one would care or notice if it disappeared altogether..

Annoying - isn't it Pete
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