Why do I hate RealPlayer?
Let me tell you. Few things piss me off more than a software package that insists on installing yet one more monitoring executable for updates, wasting my processor time on every bootup (instead of every time you load the player, which I never use). Worse, it pops up saying “RealPlayer Needs to be Upodate – Automatic Download will begin shortly.” No. No No No. This is my computer, and I know what is best for it. Maybe your update will break something else I’m doing, or maybe it will change functionality in a way I don’t like. I get to choose whether you download an update, damn it.
Installation was even worse – It asks for information I just don’t want to give out to a company I don’t trust, and it gives me no alternative but to put in fake information, and even makes that a hassle.
Okay, the player program is free, and like most free things, money has to be made somewhere. I get that. But when you greatly inconvenience me, as a user, by asking me to do things I don’t want to do, I’m going to find and open source alternative. Or (if I had the skills) build one. Simple as that.
Amen.
It’s things like that that made me want to become a software engineer.
I hate realplayer.
It is nothing but one big error wrapped up in a little downloadable package. It causes so many problems with other programs it drives me insane.
I think you need to find a good, alternative to that beast. I did. I’ve never looked back.
I’m thinking about trying to use the Quicktime one, Apple seems to be going that way lately with their player, too.
I concur. Both work well for me.
A quick session with regedit should take care of the auto update thing. :-)
I convinced it to take it’s little party elsewhere.