"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Actually, after years of berating (and hating) RealPlayer for being a
system hog, I've found their newest version to be pretty nice. It doesn't
seem to shanghai your operating system as much anymore, and it also opens
more quickly.

It probably opens more quickly because it's booted as soon as you log in.
In other words, it uses up system resources even when you don't need it,
just so it can look faster if and when you do need it.

And almost anything is better than Quicktime, although their newest
version is better, too.

I doubt you'd find many to agree to that statement. I had to go through
some hoops to stop Quicktime from starting up every time I logged on to my
PC (as I would with Real as well). But I still find it worse than Real.
It's definitely a step up from them, at least in my opinion.

Pete