Real Player Disappearance

[johnnort]

Help please. I have had Real Player on my laptop for many years with no problems. Five days ago however, when trying to view an e-mail attachment I had the following message;

RealPlay.exe Unable to locate component.

This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found.Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

I downloaded Real Player SP which solved the problem for 24 hours. Wherever I look for Real on the computer, in programs for example, I get the same message above.

I have downloaded Real now many times with the same 24 hour result. On downloading however it does not recognise that the computer is on line.

I am running an HP Presario and registered copy of XP.

Any thoughts. Mick

[elcent]

You need to run registry cleaner. You need to use a third party program. MS doesn't provide that for obvious reason to keep their sales up. There are a few free registrey cleaners out there. I'm using AVS4YOU which isn't free but comes with many other features.

It always cleared my little problems in a jiffy.

[bendejo]

If you're just out to play rm files (like the mail attachment) you may want to check out RealMedia players from other sources. klite may work for you (http://www.codecguide.com/), but if you decide to check it out do a backup first because klite is a codec pack, and the other stuff may alter your present codec set up.

What I don't like about RM products is that when you install them they dominate the system: rather than just have another application installed, you now have all this stuff going on, and it's all for something you may seldom use. This is a pet peeve of mine, Adobe products and Apple Quicktime do the same thing (I'm sure others do too, like anything anything from Symantec, but I haven't tried lately). One thing in favor of GIMP over Photoshop is you don't have to install that Adobe <deleted>.

Last week I installed an application that also installed Quicktime. Afterwards, my uninstall list then contained THREE Apple listings: Apple Updater, Apple Software Program something-or-other, and Quicktime itself. Yech! After I uninstalled the first two Quicktime wouldn't run, so I said to h_ell with it and uninstalled QT, manually scrubbing the registry; I then decided to just restore the system from a recent backup.

[Supernova]

Download and install Real Alternative. End of.

[trunknuk]

"Real Player Disappearance" - Thank god. Paves the way to use VLC.

[Thanh-BKK]

Hi.

I highly recommend to download and install the free "K-Lite Codec Pack". After that is in, you can play all (!) video and audio formats with the regular Windows Media Player (which is a good player) and don't need different players for different formats.

Alternatives would be VLC which plays pretty much everything as well but has a somewhat plain user interface, or GOM player which is like VLC but looks nicer (and supports even more "strange" formats).

I remember vaguely having a problem with that same file you mentioned, MSVCR71.dll, some time ago on my (then-XP) office machine.... a message that such file was missing would pop up every then and when without RealPlayer even installed on that machine. That problem went away on it's own after a few days.

Kind regards.....

Thanh

[Supernova]

I use Real Alternative (with Media Player Classic) to play Real media, Winamp for audio, and KMPlayer for everything else. Any one of the following players will be more than adequate for an all-in-one solution:

• The KMPlayer
  
• GOM
  
• VLC
  
• MPC-HC