Blurgh... ...and a real alternative.

[ffutures]

Feeling crap, phoned in sick. Bloody wonderful. Think it's just a cold, doubt it's hay fever (I don't get it badly anyway) since it's raining a little and that usually settles the pollen.

In yesterday's entry I mentioned Realplayer, forgot to mention that there's an alternative for Windows called (not surprisingly) "Real alternative"; this installs a reasonably good media player clone that can play Real Media files and (unlike Realplayer) doesn't monitor your net access etc. or spy on you for advertisers.

Latest (as in 12th June) update at http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

Comments

[cobrabay.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that looks handy, I'll give it a whirl. I'd only found the more obvious locations such as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run but clearly something else is lurking.

[ggreig]

Looks like Autoruns got a major upgrade last night, so it might be worth downloading a fresh copy.