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Removing RealPlayer (for RealAudio Files)
By Bill Finch

Removal of all traces of RealPlayer is simple and complete with a
freeware utility called RegCleaner. It is available for download from:
http://www.jv16.org/

I have used RegCleaner for several years with no problems at all.
The interface is intuitive and the results are always what I want done.
Before I found RegCleaner I had to hack for hours in the registry to
find all the hidden registry "keys".  This was tedious and sometimes
effective -- and always scary.

I, too, downloaded a recent version of RealPlayer and it took control
of my computer, a "no no" around here.  I tried to flush it with no
success.  I ran RegCleaner.  It found everything and obliterated
RealPlayer to the big bit bucket in the sky; no more problems from
RealPlayer.

I also had trouble with a McAfee antivirus package that refused to let
me uninstall it.  It kept calling a URL no longer in service to update
itself, a true pain.  RegCleaner uninstalled and eliminated all
evidence of the bugger.

If this sounds like a rave review, it is.  Why Microsoft didn't build
something like RegCleaner into the operating system is beyond me.
Just wanted to share ...

Bill Finch


(Message sent Fri 22 Feb 2002, 20:54:20 GMT, from time zone GMT-0600.)

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