Why does Real player force you to install 100 things you don't need and place icons everywhere, add bloated background tasks / services, insert an item into the task tray, popup daily "real news", take over major formats, etc, when many people only use it to view videos that aren't in any other format? Why don't any of the major software companies offer a lean clean, cruft free version of their software? If REAL offered that, I'd pay for the minimal version before the expanded one!
Er, they have. RealPlayer 10 for Linux [real.com] is a simple stripped-down client, and doesn't install anything else. I've had it installed for some time now.
I dunno, I just went into vmware and installed the windows version, it wasn't bad. Double-click -> Accept -> Select Speed -> deselect some checkboxes -> deselect some more checkboxes -> "cancel" -> exit
Granted, from there there's a few more steps to having a decent player: close the bottom pane, view->show related info. And then a couple of options deselected from Connection->Internet/Privacy and Automatic Services->AutoUpdate. So I'll admit that there's still some stuff to d
And can you tell me how to download it? The link you give goes to a page about a 14 day free trial of a paid-for player, which opens a popup ad about said 14 day free trial of paid-for player. Clicking the realplayer link and insisting I want the free player enough gets me a windows executable of what I hope is the free version.
This is not a troll. I really would like to download it.
It works for me as you told on Linux. But on both W32 and OS X it wants me to register, though I clicked that blue "free" button instead of the orange "14-day trial" button.
For me this looks the same customer-harrassing of Real as ever. Am I missing something?
Yeah, I got that message too when installing on Windows. I just hit "cancel" and it never bothered me again, though. I suppose it's set up a little deceptively, but it's easy enough to get out of.
Nope, it still installs the "tkbell" startup. (Nice name there, it hides as a process that looks like a Windows system process). Whilst real says "Oh that's just for updates", it's not. It still dumps advertising icons onto the desktop.
I found this out because the mother in law installed it *sigh*
Now their next step is to actually make it availible on their main website. It's great to happen upon the 'cruft-free' version link 100+ comments in on a public forum, but trying to find this through the main pages on Real.com is the proverbial needle in a haystack. Once they make it availible for mass consumption, they'll still distributing the bloatware that is their most recent version.
Just for fun, I decided to see if they had made this easily availible to the public by going to their main webpage (r
Simple solution: kill realsched.exe in the process list. Search for realsched.exe and rename it realsched.xex. Reboot. Guarantee it works on every machine I've done it on.
"Clean" Software - no Cruft? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Granted, from there there's a few more steps to having a decent player: close the bottom pane, view->show related info. And then a couple of options deselected from Connection->Internet/Privacy and Automatic Services->AutoUpdate. So I'll admit that there's still some stuff to d
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From Linux: Go to www.real.com, click on "Download RealPlayer." (file starts downloading)
From Windows: Go to www.real.com (different page comes up), click on "Download RealPlayer free." (file starts downloading)
If you're not getting either of those frontpages, I wouldn't know how to help you.
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WTF? (Score:2)
For me this looks the same customer-harrassing of Real as ever. Am I missing something?
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Completely spyware free. Doesn't install any System Tray icons - in fact I can't find much wrong with it yet.
I wanted to watch the BBC Olympics coverage, so I took the risk of downloading it and it seems to have paid off.
Re:"Clean" Software - no Cruft? (Score:1)
Nope, it still installs the "tkbell" startup. (Nice name there, it hides as a process that looks like a Windows system process). Whilst real says "Oh that's just for updates", it's not. It still dumps advertising icons onto the desktop.
I found this out because the mother in law installed it *sigh*
MOD PARENT MORON (Score:3, Informative)
http://forms.real.com/rnforms/products/tools/red/ [real.com]
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Just for fun, I decided to see if they had made this easily availible to the public by going to their main webpage (r
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Until they make it availible for mass consumption, they're still distributing the bloatware that is their most recent version.
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