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re: computer thickie needs windows help Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 4:01 pm Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) Hi Leah, From what I've discovered so far, 'RNADMIN' is a piece of spyware related to Real Player. It seems to install with the Real Player Gold (Real Player V9.0) version. This problem your experiencing initiates after MS updates, or can occur after uninstalling Real Player. It has a trick file extension so that Ad-Ware software won't detect it. First click START, move to 'FIND' and then select 'FILES or FOLDERS'. In the 'Named' box, type 'RNADMIN', be sure the 'Look in:' box is set at your C: drive and press enter. If the file is found, it will be in the C:\Windows\Application Data\Real directory. Now close the Find files window. If the file was found then proceed. Now click START, move to 'Settings' and click the 'Taskbar & Start Menu' selection. Then click the 'Start Menu Programs' tab and then the 'Remove' button. Now drill down to the 'Startup' entry and double click it. If there is an instance of 'RNADMIN' listed, click it once to highlight it and then click the 'Remove' button. Then click 'Close' and 'OK' at the next window. If it isn't listed, click the 'Close' button and then 'Cancel'. Next click START\RUN, type 'MSCONFIG' in the 'Open' box and press enter. When the 'System Configuration Utility' appears, click the 'Startup' tab. Look for any instance of 'RNADMIN' and uncheck the selection. Next click 'Apply', then 'OK' and reboot when prompted. Now try for a normal shutdown. If the shutdown process operates normal now, you can do the find file option again, right click the 'RNADMIN' file and select 'Delete' from the menu. This shouldn't effect the operation of Real Player, but if it does, remove it with Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and reinstall it. ps: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin JmC On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 10:59 am, Leah wrote: >I'm not very good on my computer, and recently downloaded some critical updates that >windows asked me to download and install. Unfortunately, since I have done this >every time I try to shut down the computer via the start button it crashes. if I >do manage to go to the CTRL, ALT, DEL bit, I find that it says that Notification >Wnd for RNA ad,min has stopped responding, does any body know how to fix this? Or >where I may be able to find some help? Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: RNADMIN Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 12:44 pm Posted by Patti (1 messages posted) JmC, Thanks for your helpful and detailed info about RNADMIN. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. Would you have any other suggestions? I am having the same problem: getting the "Notification Wnd for RNAdmin" when I close down. I did your first step and found a folder - but not a file - named rnadmin. Inside that folder is a file named rnsystem.dat. I then did your second and third steps. I did not find any mention of "rnadmin" or "rnsystem.dat" in either place. So, there was nothing to remove or uncheck. (I went through this whole thing twice - carefully - to make certain that I hadn't missed it.) I then tried for a normal shutdown but I still continue to get that message. Is there anything else I can do? Thanks a lot for any help. On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 4:01 pm, JmC wrote: > > >Hi Leah, > >From what I've discovered so far, 'RNADMIN' is a piece of spyware related to Real >Player. It seems to install with the Real Player Gold (Real Player V9.0) version. >This problem your experiencing initiates after MS updates, or can occur after >uninstalling Real Player. It has a trick file extension so that Ad-Ware software >won't detect it. > >First click START, move to 'FIND' and then select 'FILES or FOLDERS'. In the >'Named' box, type 'RNADMIN', be sure the 'Look in:' box is set at your C: drive and >press enter. If the file is found, it will be in the C:\Windows\Application Data\Real >directory. Now close the Find files window. If the file was found then proceed. > >Now click START, move to 'Settings' and click the 'Taskbar & Start Menu' selection. >Then click the 'Start Menu Programs' tab and then the 'Remove' button. Now drill >down to the 'Startup' entry and double click it. If there is an instance of 'RNADMIN' >listed, click it once to highlight it and then click the 'Remove' button. Then click >'Close' and 'OK' at the next window. If it isn't listed, click the 'Close' button >and then 'Cancel'. > >Next click START\RUN, type 'MSCONFIG' in the 'Open' box and press enter. When the >'System Configuration Utility' appears, click the 'Startup' tab. Look for any instance >of 'RNADMIN' and uncheck the selection. Next click 'Apply', then 'OK' and >reboot when prompted. > >Now try for a normal shutdown. If the shutdown process operates normal now, you >can do the find file option again, right click the 'RNADMIN' file and select 'Delete' >from the menu. This shouldn't effect the operation of Real Player, but if it does, >remove it with Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and reinstall it. > >ps: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: color="brown">RNAdmin > > > JmC > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: RNADMIN Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 2:52 pm Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) How about going to Add/Remove programs in Control Panel and removing Real Player. It would answer some questions! JmC On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 12:44 pm, Patti wrote: >JmC, > >Thanks for your helpful and detailed info about RNADMIN. Unfortunately, it didn't >work for me. Would you have any other suggestions? > >I am having the same problem: getting the "Notification Wnd for RNAdmin" when I >close down. I did your first step and found a folder - but not a file - named rnadmin. > Inside that folder is a file named rnsystem.dat. > >I then did your second and third steps. I did not find any mention of "rnadmin" >or "rnsystem.dat" in either place. So, there was nothing to remove or uncheck. >(I went through this whole thing twice - carefully - to make certain that I hadn't >missed it.) > >I then tried for a normal shutdown but I still continue to get that message. Is >there anything else I can do? Thanks a lot for any help. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 7:31 am Posted by Rick (1 messages posted) Jim, suggest you check this link...appears t be gone! On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 4:01 pm, JmC wrote: ps: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 2:27 am Posted by John (1 messages posted) Hi, I work in a computer shop as a PC Technician. Just lately I have seen this "RNAdmin" notification problem on two customers PCs (within the last fortnight - these weird problems always seem to come in pairs ;)). They had been causing various problems such as the taskbar freezing up and not responding (a CTRL-ALT-DELETE and kill off explorer.exe and it'd be fine again), printers not printing from different programs, fatal exceptions, PCs not shutting down properly (due to the RNAdmin error) and some other problems. I had run Ad-Aware over both of these customers PCs, but it had failed to detect RNAdmin as spyware (mind you that I wasn't at the very latest Ad-Aware signature anyway). However, once "Uninstalling" the "Real Player" software (I think it was called "Real One") from the Add/Remove programs list, everything was working perfectly again. Maybe it'd be OK if it was reinstalled again, but uninstalling this "Real One" seems to be the immediate solution. Anyway, just thought I'd mention my experiences with it.. Hope it helps.. Thanks.. John.K. BIS Computers (Australia) On Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 7:31 am, Rick wrote: >Jim, suggest you check this link...appears t be gone! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: RNADMIN Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 1:57 pm Posted by Sue (1 messages posted) I had the same problem with rnadmin, including slowing down my system and causing a number of links to crash my computer. I could not find the file in any of my startup menus, so having found it in Windows Explorer, I simply deleted rnsystem.dat on the principle that I could always restore it, and lo and behold it cured everything! My system is back to normal, in fact it seems to working faster than before, all the links work properly again and the system closes down perfectly. I only have the free Real Player downloaded from the internet, and that still seems to work perfectly well. I don't know why this should solve the problem, but I'm grateful I was pointed in the right direction. Sue On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 12:44 pm, Patti wrote: >JmC, > >Thanks for your helpful and detailed info about RNADMIN. Unfortunately, it didn't >work for me. Would you have any other suggestions? > >I am having the same problem: getting the "Notification Wnd for RNAdmin" when I >close down. I did your first step and found a folder - but not a file - named rnadmin. > Inside that folder is a file named rnsystem.dat. > >I then did your second and third steps. I did not find any mention of "rnadmin" >or "rnsystem.dat" in either place. So, there was nothing to remove or uncheck. >(I went through this whole thing twice - carefully - to make certain that I hadn't >missed it.) > >I then tried for a normal shutdown but I still continue to get that message. Is >there anything else I can do? Thanks a lot for any help. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Real Player causing HAVOC! Monday, December 2, 2002 at 3:08 pm Posted by ShootRealPlayer (1 messages posted) 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! On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 4:01 pm, JmC wrote: > > >Hi Leah, > >From what I've discovered so far, 'RNADMIN' is a piece of spyware related to Real >Player. It seems to install with the Real Player Gold (Real Player V9.0) version. >This problem your experiencing initiates after MS updates, or can occur after >uninstalling Real Player. It has a trick file extension so that Ad-Ware software >won't detect it. > >First click START, move to 'FIND' and then select 'FILES or FOLDERS'. In the >'Named' box, type 'RNADMIN', be sure the 'Look in:' box is set at your C: drive and >press enter. If the file is found, it will be in the C:\Windows\Application Data\Real >directory. Now close the Find files window. If the file was found then proceed. > >Now click START, move to 'Settings' and click the 'Taskbar & Start Menu' selection. >Then click the 'Start Menu Programs' tab and then the 'Remove' button. Now drill >down to the 'Startup' entry and double click it. If there is an instance of 'RNADMIN' >listed, click it once to highlight it and then click the 'Remove' button. Then click >'Close' and 'OK' at the next window. If it isn't listed, click the 'Close' button >and then 'Cancel'. > >Next click START\RUN, type 'MSCONFIG' in the 'Open' box and press enter. When the >'System Configuration Utility' appears, click the 'Startup' tab. Look for any instance >of 'RNADMIN' and uncheck the selection. Next click 'Apply', then 'OK' and >reboot when prompted. > >Now try for a normal shutdown. If the shutdown process operates normal now, you >can do the find file option again, right click the 'RNADMIN' file and select 'Delete' >from the menu. This shouldn't effect the operation of Real Player, but if it does, >remove it with Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and reinstall it. > >ps: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: color="brown">RNAdmin > > > JmC > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: RNADMIN Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at 4:02 pm Posted by Robin (1 messages posted) I had very similar. System slowed down, menus opening erratically, refusal to shut down properly. As I have recently gone broadband and had bought PC Cillin I was looking there. I had forgotten I had downloaded free real player a couple of weeks ago - you get so used to seeing it around - and you suppose that they know what they are doing. Getting desperate, even contemplating the dreaded (for me) c drive reformat etc. Did a search for rnadmin and came upon this correspondence. I deleted (well actually transferred to a floppy) rnsystem.dat from windows/ application data folder and everything was back to normal W98 i.e. not marvellous but pretty cool. I am forwarding this link to real player!!! Thanks everyone for this correspondence and Happy Christmas. Robin On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 1:57 pm, Sue wrote: >I had the same problem with rnadmin, including slowing down my system and causing >a number of links to crash my computer. I could not find the file in any of my startup >menus, so having found it in Windows Explorer, I simply deleted rnsystem.dat on the >principle that I could always restore it, and lo and behold it cured everything! > My system is back to normal, in fact it seems to working faster than before, all >the links work properly again and the system closes down perfectly. I only have >the free Real Player downloaded from the internet, and that still seems to work perfectly >well. I don't know why this should solve the problem, but I'm grateful I was pointed >in the right direction. > >Sue > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: RNADMIN Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 1:40 pm Posted by Charlie (1 messages posted) I have the problem and have come here to find a solution. Your information looks good. Meanwhile, I have used Norton's Freeze Check to free up the computer. It lets me use the computer for a while and then it starts all over again. Thanks for your post. On Tuesday, October 29, 2002 at 1:57 pm, Sue wrote: >I had the same problem with rnadmin, including slowing down my system and causing >a number of links to crash my computer. I could not find the file in any of my startup >menus, so having found it in Windows Explorer, I simply deleted rnsystem.dat on the >principle that I could always restore it, and lo and behold it cured everything! > My system is back to normal, in fact it seems to working faster than before, all >the links work properly again and the system closes down perfectly. I only have >the free Real Player downloaded from the internet, and that still seems to work perfectly >well. I don't know why this should solve the problem, but I'm grateful I was pointed >in the right direction. > >Sue > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] THANKS! re: RNADMIN Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 8:01 pm Posted by Sheryl Foley (1 messages posted) Thanks for the info. I just noticed the RNAdmin error and nearly broke down that my computer wasn't working just "out of the blue" and was considering calling my extended warranty place but it's x-mas day and i knew no one would be there. And great! because i'm sure they would have told me to restore the who c drive which would be aweful. Espically since all your advice (combined) told me where to look. I have no idea why real one (the free version) started messing up now because I haven't done anything with it or downloaded it recently but it only just started. Well anyway I had none of the files such as "RNADMIN" "rnsystem.dat", (oh yeah, I have Windows XP) but when I looked at "MSCONFIG" I found a file under c:\Program Files\Common Files\Real\Update_OB named "evntsvc" and I unchecked it, restarted my computer and everything worked great! I just hope it keeps working. I surpose I should also delete this file also. Anyway THANKS for the help and I hope this helps others who are having this truly annoying problem! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Thursday, December 26, 2002 at 10:49 am Posted by LG (3 messages posted) I am so glad to hear these suggestions. They sound just like my problem. I don't know why it occurred now, as I have had Realplayer installed for many months (and not used it). I have the RNAdmin problem, shutdown freezes, slow, sluggish typing, CD start problems, and Control Panel opening delays as well as task bar freeze ups. Quite a frustration to do anything on the computer. I already removed Realplayer, and I will now log off to see if it worked. If not, I will try some of the other Suggestions. Thanks so much everyone. 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! > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Thursday, December 26, 2002 at 11:26 am Posted by LG (3 messages posted) I was successful! I searched through the steps listed above to make sure I didn't miss anything, but the removal of the player seems to have done it! Even control panel opens normally. What a relief. I am grateful people took the time to share their experiences. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Friday, December 27, 2002 at 7:09 am 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! > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] RNADMIN is REAL ONE SPYWARE Friday, December 27, 2002 at 8:41 am Posted by John McFadden (1 messages posted) As much as I used to like Real Player, I didn't realize how unscrupulous they've become. Besides the darn RNADMN file screwing up my computer, they are constantly spying and violating my privacy. Check out GRC's article on the subject. http://grc.com/downloaders.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: THANKS! re: RNADMIN Friday, December 27, 2002 at 12:43 pm Posted by Terri (1 messages posted) Sheryl, Thank you thank you!!!! I did everything everyone had to say on this site about this dumb irrititating RNADMIN. It really messed up my computer. So Far So good since I took your advice. I was really glad to find this site. Thanks for taking the time to write in about it. Terri On Wednesday, December 25, 2002 at 8:01 pm, Sheryl Foley wrote: >Thanks for the info. I just noticed the RNAdmin error and nearly broke down that >my computer wasn't working just "out of the blue" and was considering calling my >extended warranty place but it's x-mas day and i knew no one would be there. And >great! because i'm sure they would have told me to restore the who c drive which >would be aweful. Espically since all your advice (combined) told me where to look. >I have no idea why real one (the free version) started messing up now because I haven't >done anything with it or downloaded it recently but it only just started. Well anyway >I had none of the files such as "RNADMIN" "rnsystem.dat", (oh yeah, I have Windows >XP) but when I looked at "MSCONFIG" I found a file under c:\Program Files\Common >Files\Real\Update_OB named "evntsvc" and I unchecked it, restarted my computer and >everything worked great! I just hope it keeps working. I surpose I should also delete >this file also. Anyway THANKS for the help and I hope this helps others who are having >this truly annoying problem! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: RNADMIN is REAL ONE SPYWARE Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 1:11 am Posted by Peter Hayes (1 messages posted) I too had / have the RNAdmin problem. I have recently installed a Firewall and have been surprised at the number of Outgoing requests Real Player makes. I have denied access each time but the requests continue several times a session, perhaps every ten minutes or so. I wonder if this has any bearing on the sudden appearance on my computer of the RNAdmin problem? On Friday, December 27, 2002 at 8:41 am, John McFadden wrote: >As much as I used to like Real Player, I didn't realize how unscrupulous they've >become. Besides the darn RNADMN file screwing up my computer, they are constantly >spying and violating my privacy. Check out GRC's article on the subject. >http://grc.com/downloaders.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: THANKS! re: RNADMIN Saturday, December 28, 2002 at 4:04 pm Posted by Neal (1 messages posted) Thanks and congratulations go to you guys, and boo to Real. I too had the message regarding "RNAdmin" on shutting down, and a whole host of other symptoms. Like someone on this forum said, it started for no reason several months after installing RealOne. Symptoms included not recognising printer port, and not shutting down. Most importantly, it also seemed to muck up DirectX communicating with my graphics card (Radeon), and not recognising Direct3D, so I couldn't play any of my Christmas presents! I had already spent all day updating DirectX, reinstalling my graphics drivers etc to no avail (not good for my Chirstmas holidays and almost causing terrible rows with my girlfriend!). **Final solution was to delete "RNSystem.dat" and uncheck any references to any Real products using MSConfig (type "MSConfig" after pressing Start Menu/Run).** So far this has solved all of the problems. I haven't tried running RealOne since, and to be quite honest, I'm not sure that I want anything to do with them again. Happy new year. On Friday, December 27, 2002 at 12:43 pm, Terri wrote: >Sheryl, Thank you thank you!!!! I did everything everyone had to say on this site >about this dumb irrititating RNADMIN. It really messed up my computer. So Far So >good since I took your advice. I was really glad to find this site. Thanks for >taking the time to write in about it. Terri > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: RNAdmin Monday, December 30, 2002 at 2:35 am Posted by JmC (14166 messages posted) Here's a quote from our real hero! w00t I like fixed up my computer when it was going so slow and screwing up. 'cause everytime when I shut down, there'd be this "Notification Wnd for RNAdmin" thing, saying the program is still running or whatnot... then so I went to Run, RNAdmin, and there was no such program or whatever... then just today I went to Find, RNAdmin, and turned out it was this RealPlayer thingy... meh, so I just uninstalled all of the Real programs, and mwa ha ha ha ha ha... Compy is back to fastness!! XDD Meh, I gotta go to my friend's house later to study x_X JmC On Wednesday, October 23, 2002 at 7:31 am, Rick wrote: >Jim, suggest you check this link...appears t be gone! > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Monday, December 30, 2002 at 1:54 pm Posted by Ed (2 messages posted) Thanks from me as well regarding this problem. It had hit one of the PCs at work and now less than a month later hits my home machine. I too went through the process of wondering if it was a virus/hard drive failure/win 98 being crap, but to find its a piece of spyware doing this is shocking. How do these companies get away with this?! I was nearly at the point of formatting the hard drive! Anyway, deleting realplayer does the trick. Wonder why it seems to be kicking into gear round the same time for a lot of us?;) Bloody spyware! Thanks for all the info, I would have been stuck without this place:) On Friday, December 27, 2002 at 7:09 am, Si wrote: > >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 > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 4:28 pm Posted by Ed (2 messages posted) Just to clarify...I only deleted the RNADMIN.DAT file from c:\windows\application data\Real directory. I also used msconfig to turn off rnadmin and tkbellexe. Since then my machine has worked fine. I'm writing this again as another machine at work (we have 5) now has this rnadmin problem!! So I came here to double check what to do. Big thanks to JmC who replied to Leah giving me the above advice in this forum. Nice one:) On Monday, December 30, 2002 at 1:54 pm, Ed wrote: > > >Thanks from me as well regarding this problem. It had hit one of the PCs at work >and now less than a month later hits my home machine. I too went through the process >of wondering if it was a virus/hard drive failure/win 98 being crap, but to find >its a piece of spyware doing this is shocking. How do these companies get away with >this?! I was nearly at the point of formatting the hard drive! > >Anyway, deleting realplayer does the trick. > >Wonder why it seems to be kicking into gear round the same time for a lot of us?;) > Bloody spyware! > >Thanks for all the info, I would have been stuck without this place:) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: computer thickie needs windows help Sunday, February 2, 2003 at 9:20 am Posted by Richard (1 messages posted) Thank you JmC, I removed the folder named RNADMIN. Maybe I shouldn't have, but too late. My wife's computer now shutsdown without problems. And the Windows explorer is not locking up anymore. I also found MSCONFIG very useful. Thanks again, Richard On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 4:01 pm, JmC wrote: > > >Hi Leah, > >From what I've discovered so far, 'RNADMIN' is a piece of spyware related to Real >Player. It seems to install with the Real Player Gold (Real Player V9.0) version. >This problem your experiencing initiates after MS updates, or can occur after >uninstalling Real Player. It has a trick file extension so that Ad-Ware software >won't detect it. > >First click START, move to 'FIND' and then select 'FILES or FOLDERS'. In the >'Named' box, type 'RNADMIN', be sure the 'Look in:' box is set at your C: drive and >press enter. If the file is found, it will be in the C:\Windows\Application Data\Real >directory. Now close the Find files window. If the file was found then proceed. > >Now click START, move to 'Settings' and click the 'Taskbar & Start Menu' selection. >Then click the 'Start Menu Programs' tab and then the 'Remove' button. Now drill >down to the 'Startup' entry and double click it. If there is an instance of 'RNADMIN' >listed, click it once to highlight it and then click the 'Remove' button. Then click >'Close' and 'OK' at the next window. If it isn't listed, click the 'Close' button >and then 'Cancel'. > >Next click START\RUN, type 'MSCONFIG' in the 'Open' box and press enter. When the >'System Configuration Utility' appears, click the 'Startup' tab. Look for any instance >of 'RNADMIN' and uncheck the selection. Next click 'Apply', then 'OK' and >reboot when prompted. > >Now try for a normal shutdown. If the shutdown process operates normal now, you >can do the find file option again, right click the 'RNADMIN' file and select 'Delete' >from the menu. This shouldn't effect the operation of Real Player, but if it does, >remove it with Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and reinstall it. > >ps: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: color="brown">RNAdmin > > > JmC > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: computer thickie needs windows help Monday, February 3, 2003 at 8:17 am Posted by Cedd Burge (1 messages posted) I had this problem too. My computer was almost unusable and I just deleted the Real directory from the Program Files folder (The uninstaller crashed every time I tried it). This has worked fine. I cannot believe Real caused me so much hassle though. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: computer thickie needs windows help Sunday, February 16, 2003 at 9:34 pm Posted by Lynne (1 messages posted) I have been struggling with this RNAdmin problem for months now. My computer has been freezing, hanging, crashing, lost all my sound, you name it I have had the problem. Until I read these articles I never would have thought Real One Player could cause so many problems. I remember this all started when my son was staying with us and he added all these extra programs to my computer. I found Real One thru my add/delete programs and deleted and Ole' it was fixed. I am so grateful for these discussion forums. It saved me a lot of money and a C drive reformat. Thank you very much. If you have any other advise please email me. Grateful Fancee On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 10:59 am, Leah wrote: >I'm not very good on my computer, and recently downloaded some critical updates that >windows asked me to download and install. Unfortunately, since I have done this >every time I try to shut down the computer via the start button it crashes. if I >do manage to go to the CTRL, ALT, DEL bit, I find that it says that Notification >Wnd for RNA ad,min has stopped responding, does any body know how to fix this? Or >where I may be able to find some help? Thank you. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Real Player-HELP Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 5:11 pm Posted by rye (1 messages posted) Yah well great for all of u other people but i have a window's XP and i can't seem to get rid of MY RNAdmin. If somone could please help me i'd love it i deleted Real One Player and still it did squat! grrrrrrrr [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: computer thickie needs windows help Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 9:56 am Posted by Christophe (1 messages posted) Thank you from France. I have remove Real Player and all is OK. On Tuesday, August 27, 2002 at 4:01 pm, JmC wrote: > > >Hi Leah, > >From what I've discovered so far, 'RNADMIN' is a piece of spyware related to Real >Player. It seems to install with the Real Player Gold (Real Player V9.0) version. >This problem your experiencing initiates after MS updates, or can occur after >uninstalling Real Player. It has a trick file extension so that Ad-Ware software >won't detect it. > >First click START, move to 'FIND' and then select 'FILES or FOLDERS'. In the >'Named' box, type 'RNADMIN', be sure the 'Look in:' box is set at your C: drive and >press enter. If the file is found, it will be in the C:\Windows\Application Data\Real >directory. Now close the Find files window. If the file was found then proceed. > >Now click START, move to 'Settings' and click the 'Taskbar & Start Menu' selection. >Then click the 'Start Menu Programs' tab and then the 'Remove' button. Now drill >down to the 'Startup' entry and double click it. If there is an instance of 'RNADMIN' >listed, click it once to highlight it and then click the 'Remove' button. Then click >'Close' and 'OK' at the next window. If it isn't listed, click the 'Close' button >and then 'Cancel'. > >Next click START\RUN, type 'MSCONFIG' in the 'Open' box and press enter. When the >'System Configuration Utility' appears, click the 'Startup' tab. Look for any instance >of 'RNADMIN' and uncheck the selection. Next click 'Apply', then 'OK' and >reboot when prompted. > >Now try for a normal shutdown. If the shutdown process operates normal now, you >can do the find file option again, right click the 'RNADMIN' file and select 'Delete' >from the menu. This shouldn't effect the operation of Real Player, but if it does, >remove it with Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel and reinstall it. > >ps: Here's a cute story regarding this problem: color="brown">RNAdmin > > > JmC > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Wednesday, May 28, 2003 at 4:15 am Posted by Bryan Hale (1 messages posted) HOORAHHHH!!!! Thank you so so much for the help this page has provided. I have had all the above mentioned problems for 6 months or more and have been trying all sorts of things including a complete reinstall (unfortunately that included real one). This morning I got my wife to remove the real directory and the start up reference to tkbellexe in the msconfig and voila all problems solved. I am so happy I could roger everyone of you!!! Real now tops my most hated company list!! See this for more slating info.... http://grc.com/downloaders.htm [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thanks!!! (Gracias!!) Sunday, July 13, 2003 at 6:09 pm Posted by Wildcrue (1 messages posted) Hey!!, Thanks a lot for the information, was very useful, and... well... thats all .... THANKS THANKS THANKS!!!, lol .... ey, look my page, its a little ugly, but, maybe u can found something good... :D .... y gracias amigos!!! si necesitan algo espero poder ayudarles!! if u need something maybe i can help u!! :D [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Thanks!!! (Gracias!!) Tuesday, November 25, 2003 at 5:10 am Posted by Phil (1 messages posted) I second the above, thanks for the advice about this RNAdmin problem. I also got messages from my Firewall telling me that Realplayer wanted to connect to the internet, I refused everytime. I had all the above symptoms and noticed also that my Nortons system monitor was also showing the CPU was running at 100% all the time (usually runs between 0 and 60%). The only way I could solve the problem was to remove Real Player. Thanks all of the above..Phil. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Real Player causing HAVOC! Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:17 am Posted by Irv Bouton (1 messages posted) SUPER THX TO ALL for the GREAT insights and suggestions on this one!!!!! Jes' shows ta go ya that not all freebies are worthy -- nor yet their higher- priced 'official' cousins. Minds me of a comment on MS-DOS fm long years back: that "free of extra charge, with it you get EDLIN ... and at that, it's over-priced!!!" -- Cheers all -- Irv On Thursday, January 2, 2003 at 4:28 pm, Ed wrote: >Just to clarify...I only deleted the RNADMIN.DAT file from c:\windows\application >data\Real directory. > >I also used msconfig to turn off rnadmin and tkbellexe. Since then my machine has >worked fine. I'm writing this again as another machine at work (we have 5) now has >this rnadmin problem!! So I came here to double check what to do. > >Big thanks to JmC who replied to Leah giving me the above advice in this forum. >Nice one:) > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: RNADMIN Monday, February 14, 2005 at 11:23 am Posted by Scheide (2 messages posted) Finally and thank you. I notice the dates of all your messages as 2002. Well I have been searching about that long and just today ran across this web site. Thanks to a reader from Smart Computing who directed me to Annoyances. Great site. I followed directions by several of your members and have now finally gotten rid of the RNADMIN problem. I was unable to shut down my computer. And now guess what, it shuts down normally and sufficient speed has returned to my Win 98 puter. So if this continues hopefully, I soon will be signing back on with a new problem. Thanks to everybody, I feel better already. Dave On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 12:44 pm, Patti wrote: >JmC, > >Thanks for your helpful and detailed info about RNADMIN. Unfortunately, it didn't >work for me. Would you have any other suggestions? > >I am having the same problem: getting the "Notification Wnd for RNAdmin" when I >close down. I did your first step and found a folder - but not a file - named rnadmin. > Inside that folder is a file named rnsystem.dat. > >I then did your second and third steps. I did not find any mention of "rnadmin" >or "rnsystem.dat" in either place. So, there was nothing to remove or uncheck. >(I went through this whole thing twice - carefully - to make certain that I hadn't >missed it.) > >I then tried for a normal shutdown but I still continue to get that message. Is >there anything else I can do? Thanks a lot for any help. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum