Realplayer 8 is the most bloated piece of software ever!

[Mucman]

I had to install it to see a movie I downloaded... there was so much crap I had to de-select when installing and it still seems bloated! This crappy program is coming off my machine right away!

 

[HigherGround]

i guess you haven't tried Media Player 7, engineered (pieced together) and brought to us by Microsoft.

 

[RayEarth]

what movie could be so important to persuade you to use real player?

 

[Celstar]

I'd hate to tell you this but real player was bloated many versions ago

 

[Quickfingerz]

i have real player 8 plus. It's not that bad. i don't really care i just wanted something to play real media.

 

[Spiff]

Real Media is the devil. plain and simple... always have been. boycott them for their intrusive crap they make

 

[Train]

Real player sucks so much @$$ i have no clue how thet are even still in business, what a bunch of crap. just another company hangin on to a so called "standard", jeeze, Real Media is worse than PDF's for cryin out loud.

 

[TuffGuy]

 

[Mucman]

The clip I saw wasn't even worth the download! I wonder if anyone actually does like it? I know most people run it out of necessity.

 

[RayEarth]

I don't know about your clip, but I downloaded real player 8 myself just to see a clip too a few weeks ago. It was a preview of the animated movie, street fighter zero, & even though it was not too long, it was worth it just to see the preview & the file size was only 577kb which took a couple of secs to download. It's been awhile since I've seen a good animation, ever since street fighter 2: the animated movie, all these other animated movies like tekken just can't compare.

 

[Zucchini]

Realplayer also is also spyware, it loves to use your net connection without your knowledge.. i hate sneaky dishonest software. Course i just run norton internet security to block it.. still, it shouldn't happen in the 1st place.

 

[anazoal]

The problem with Realplayer is that it wants to download a lot of third-party apps that have payed Real for just this!!! Chose the "barebones", it's not too bad at 4.7 Mb.

 

[Rigoletto]

Hey I was reading in the bath today about how a guy running two PCs on a network saw how auto update searches for Real audio 7.0 used up 40 hours in a month! 8 dials a day!
Apparently brodcast update is "spyware" giving remote access to functions on a user's pc potentially.

 

[kuk]

RealPlayer and WMP7 are bloated, but what I simply can't stand is how ICQ grows in every version. I'm using 2000b right now, and it's damn bloated. I wan't to remove 90% of those features, and customize is to my needs. There are things that I like, but there's definately things I don't need.

TV guides ?! Not where I live.
ICQMail ... hummm, prefer my own.
Interests ? THe same ol' thing everytime
Newsletters? ActiveLists? Integrated search bar ? ADs? ..... como on people !!!

These are the things that make this a hefty 6.5MB download (and memory hogger). And why does it keep wanting to set my home page to ICQ "Cool Links" ?!?! Even when I tell it "DO NOT CHANGE", it set's up ICQ Cool Links as my browsers home-page.

ARGHHH !!!

 

[Mucman]

Yeah ICQ is getting bloated too! I gott 2000b, but I don't use any of it except file transfers and the good ol paging stuff.

 

[Chuck]

Out of interest how many people have stuck with good old Media Player 6.4, rather than moving onto 7?