Thanks for the input, but anymore productive answer then just get rid
of it?
Jeff M
On Nov 2, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Tom Piwowar wrote:
An an iMac running OS-10.5.5, does anyone know how to shut off this
Real Player download manager thing?
Should never have allowed it to install in the first
Not sure what Real's Update Manager is but in Windows, Real Player has
an option to turn off AutoUpdate. If this will help, it's:
ToolsPreferencesAutomatic ServicesAutoUpdate, and then uncheck
Automaticallydownload and Install important updates. Good luck.
Richard P.
An an iMac running
Thanks for the help, but update isn't it. I also have that function.
It just checks for a newer version of Real Player. This thing seems to
be a program within a program that saves all video to some folder
whenever it sees some kind of tag (I'm assuming here) on a web page. I
use a site
Player download mngr.
Thanks for the help, but update isn't it. I also have that function.
It just checks for a newer version of Real Player. This thing seems to
be a program within a program that saves all video to some folder
whenever it sees some kind of tag (I'm assuming here) on a web
What version are you running? I see something that sounds promising in
version 11.0.1 Build 949: Added a preference to the Downloader to
enable/disable Advanced Video Detection.. Just a wild guess...
Richard P.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Jeff Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks
Thanks for both the ideas from you and slogin2k1. I did find something
in Real Player preferences that was labeled web browsing something. It
said it was for premium content. I guess they consider premium as
adds? Anyway, I unchecked both under this section and will see if this
solves the
Tom is right that RealPlayer/RealOne is an obnoxious piece of
crud and shouldn't ever have been installed. If you insist on
keeping it, start up Realplayer and disable the Enable web
Downloading and Recording option. In Windows, this would
be in the Preferences under the Tools menu, so for the
An an iMac running OS-10.5.5, does anyone know how to shut off this
Real Player download manager thing? Whenever I surf the web I run
across web pages that activate this thing. All it seems to be doing is
downloading streaming media or something from adds.
Jeff M
An an iMac running OS-10.5.5, does anyone know how to shut off this
Real Player download manager thing?
Should never have allowed it to install in the first place.
Have you tried dragging RealPlayer or RealOne Player into the trash and
emptying the trash? That is the official uninstall
