Real One Player isn’t all its cracked up to be. Watching videos on a computer requires a media player of some kind, you can download a number of them for free from various websites. A trial version of the Real One Player is often used by many new computer users, but before you install it you should take a look at this special report.
The Real One Player is pretty good at playing videos; every bit as good as Windows Media Player, Quicktime, or any of the other streaming video players out there these days. The problem with Real One Player is you have to pretty much sign a deal with the devil to use it. From the moment you agree to their terms and install the free demo version of Real One Player onto your computer you realize you made a mistake. The instant the install finishes it becomes clear that your computer is no longer yours, but rather the property of the Real One Player people, whoever they may be.
Here’s another bad point, after I installed the Real One Player I noticed my computer began slowing down considerably and acting strange immediately afterwards. It crashed a lot more often, and I got loads more pop up ads when using the internet. I’ve become convinced that the Real One Player people has taken the opportunity to slip in a bunch of spyware on your computer when you run their installer.
Getting the Real One Player off your computer is a pain as well. After a few days I’d had enough, and tried to uninstall it. While it uninstalled normally, I was still getting annoying messages from the Real One Player people when booting up. It wasn’t until I scoured through my programs files on the ‘Add/Remove’ list that I found a couple of other sneaky Real One programs hiding out. Thankfully, getting rid of those did the trick.
[tags]real one, real one media player, free media player[/tags]
Filed under Basic Internet Operations, Computer Audio, Computer Help, Downloading, How To, Media Players, Music Downloads by Jeff Stewart
