re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Friday, December 27, 2002 at 7:09 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Si (1 messages posted) my pc suddenly started having probs similar to what i have been reading here plus my computer refused to see my printer. I uninstalled realplayer and everything seems to be back to normal On Monday, December 2, 2002 at 3:08 pm, ShootRealPlayer wrote: >For no apparent reason (I even suspected a virus), my Windows 98-based system started >running very slowly (over a minute to bring up Control Panel, CDs would not start >automatically, etc.) and when the Office Taskbar came up at the end of the daily >start-up, it AND the bottom "START"/icons taskbar were frozen, too. > >After nearly resorting to a complete Windows 98 restore (since our last backup was >a few days old), I happened to read the posts here. Thanks to everyone that posted, >since you helped solve our problem!!! > >Before I deleted the "RNsystem.dat" file, I happened to notice a program entitled, >"TKBellExe" in the MSCONFIG list. I simply unchecked it and, voila! Everyone is back >to normal (well, as far as Windows 98 can be) now. > >Now, to send a "howler" to the idiots at Real.com! > > > > Written in response to: Real Player causing HAVOC! (ShootRealPlayer: Monday, December 2, 2002 at 3:08 pm) Responses to this message: re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (Ed: Monday, December 30, 2002 at 1:54 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] computer thickie needs windows help (Leah: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 10:59 am) re: computer thickie needs windows help (JmC: Tue, Aug 27, 2002, 4:01 pm) re: RNADMIN (Patti: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 12:44 pm) re: RNADMIN (JmC: Tue, Oct 8, 2002, 2:52 pm) re: RNADMIN (Sue: Tue, Oct 29, 2002, 1:57 pm) re: RNADMIN (Robin: Tue, Dec 17, 2002, 4:02 pm) re: RNADMIN (Charlie: Thu, Dec 19, 2002, 1:40 pm) THANKS! re: RNADMIN (Sheryl Foley: Wed, Dec 25, 2002, 8:01 pm) re: THANKS! re: RNADMIN (Terri: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 12:43 pm) re: THANKS! re: RNADMIN (Neal: Sat, Dec 28, 2002, 4:04 pm) RNADMIN is REAL ONE SPYWARE (John McFadden: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 8:41 am) re: RNADMIN is REAL ONE SPYWARE (Peter Hayes: Sat, Dec 28, 2002, 1:11 am) re: RNADMIN (Scheide: Mon, Feb 14, 2005, 11:23 am) re: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin (Rick: Wed, Oct 23, 2002, 7:31 am) re: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin (John: Tue, Oct 29, 2002, 2:27 am) re: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin (JmC: Mon, Dec 30, 2002, 2:35 am) Real Player causing HAVOC! (ShootRealPlayer: Mon, Dec 2, 2002, 3:08 pm) re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (LG: Thu, Dec 26, 2002, 10:49 am) re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (LG: Thu, Dec 26, 2002, 11:26 am) re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (Si: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 7:09 am) re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (Ed: Mon, Dec 30, 2002, 1:54 pm) re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (Ed: Thu, Jan 2, 2003, 4:28 pm) re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (Irv Bouton: Wed, Jun 23, 2004, 8:17 am) Real Player-HELP (rye: Thu, Apr 3, 2003, 5:11 pm) re: Real Player causing HAVOC! (Bryan Hale: Wed, May 28, 2003, 4:15 am) re: computer thickie needs windows help (Richard: Sun, Feb 2, 2003, 9:20 am) re: computer thickie needs windows help (Cedd Burge: Mon, Feb 3, 2003, 8:17 am) re: computer thickie needs windows help (Christophe: Sun, Apr 20, 2003, 9:56 am) re: computer thickie needs windows help (Lynne: Sun, Feb 16, 2003, 9:34 pm) re: Thanks!!! (Gracias!!) (Wildcrue: Sun, Jul 13, 2003, 6:09 pm) re: Thanks!!! (Gracias!!) (Phil: Tue, Nov 25, 2003, 5:10 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum