The perfect solution to RealPlayer's pop-up ad windows

by diooo on 2006-10-20 08:55:30

RealPlayer is the official player for Rm and Rmvb formats. The greatest advantage of an official player is its stability. However, RealPlayer has a fatal drawback: it tends to pop up web browser windows while playing many video files. Originally, this was just a feature of RealPlayer, but many organizations and individuals who encode video files have exploited this function, forcing viewers to see advertisement pop-ups while watching videos (fullscreen videos will suddenly shrink to their original size). Worse still, some people have even used this to spread viruses or trojans. To add to the frustration, RealPlayer does not provide an option to disable this pop-up window feature.

This software was specifically created to address this issue by modifying several related entries in the Windows Registry, causing RealPlayer to automatically ignore the commands embedded in video files that trigger pop-up windows.