Help urgently needed-- how to uninstall a hosed RealPlayer?

Papageno · Post by **Papageno** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 3:34 am

The install went wrong somehow, so I can't uninstall it the "official way" in Add/Remove Programs. Is it enough to delete the directories and the files in them, then the registry keys for RealNetworks under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE ? Will that exorcise this abomination from my computer?

Should I also uninstall and reinstall Firefox (the browser I was using at the time)?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Jeff Jones · Post by **Jeff Jones** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:45 am

Just another reason why I call it the RealVirus. That POS program doesn't wantyou to uninstall it.

I would recommend doing what you said, remove the folder, and the registry keys.

To repair file associations in Firefox, just install Real Alternative.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Rea ... native.htm

It will let you play Real files, without all the BS spyware, and aggressionware.

Papageno · Post by **Papageno** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:03 pm

OK, I ended up going to a file in the setup directory called something like rp1clean.exe (read about it on a web forum) and that uninstalled it. Then I reinstalled it and uninstalled it the "legal" way, and installed the latest version of Real Alternative, as you suggest, Jeff.

Freezer-TPF- · Post by **Freezer-TPF-** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:20 pm

Hmm, rp1clean.exe, interesting... Good tip and thanks for posting back with your solution, Papageno.