RM files - all other programs do that too - but not remove the reference placed in there by Microsoft. But the process of installing the RealOne player is such that it will amend the registry file to include the.

RM extension), although the RealOne streaming-media player is not included in Windows. It turns out that Windows installs all sorts of references to file types that you may or may not choose to handle in the future.įor instance, there is a reference in the registry to Real files (with the. of Guelph, Ont., which makes the product, to ask. Wondering what kind of entries they were, I contacted Business Logic Corp. I tried the WinCleaner program on a fresh Windows XP installation (on a Pentium 4 running at 2 Gigahertz, built by Toronto's MDG Computers), and found 106 entries that WinCleaner called invalid. Take, for instance, Ultra WinCleaner's registry cleaner, which finds 'references,' or links between programs and certain file types. The collection of about 11 different programs is designed to make computers work faster and smarter - I say 'about' because there are different ways of counting the suite's individual components.Īre all these programs good to have? To varying degrees yes, but the need for them underlines the sorts of areas in which Microsoft has been perhaps a little cavalier with Windows users. This tune-up package for Windows operating systems, housed in a box designed to look a lot like a certain famous laundry-detergent package, has been upgraded to handle Windows XP. Ultra WinCleaner is one scary suite of programs.

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