Field
| Description
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Upgrade notification
| (Default is On) If on, RealPlayer periodically contacts RealNetworks in the background to determine if a newer version or newer components are available for your
RealPlayer Plus. If an upgrade is available, RealPlayer Plus offers to download
the new files. All new components will be authenticated and installed automatically.
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Check for update now
Turn off notification for 30 days.
| Immediately contacts RealNetworks and ascertains if an upgrade is available.
If clicked, RealPlayer will stop checking for upgrades for 30 days. At the end
of 30 days, this preference will reset and RealPlayer will begin to check for
updates on a regular basis again and inform you when updates are available.
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Real.com Product Flashes
| This free service brings you Tips and Tricks and special offers from
RealNetworks.
The list displays Flashes to which you currently subscribe. If you do not
subscribe to any Flashes the list will be blank. Also, control the rate of glimmer
on the RealPlayer Icon in your system tray by changing the Alert Level.
To subscribe to or change the Flashes you would like to receive use
Personalize Real.com Product Flashes from the Help menu.
See also: Real.com News and Enterntainment Flashes (Content Preferences),
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RealPlayer Plug-ins
| Listing of the different components that work with your RealPlayer. To remove
a component highlight it and click Remove.
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Warn before installing new components.
| (Default is On) If checked, RealPlayer will alert you before attempting to install any new
components or updates. If unchecked, RealPlayer will automatically begin
installation of any new components that it downloads.
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Media types
| Occasionally the installation of a new program causes these file-types to no longer be associated with RealPlayer Plus.
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Re-associate
| Clicking Re-associate will automatically re-associate file-types with your RealPlayer Plus that
RealPlayer recognizes as you having used with your Player in the past.
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Auto Restore Settings...
| Use Auto Restore Settings to choose which file-types you would always like RealPlayer to reassociate with itself without asking.
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Always play RealNetworks' Media with RealPlayer.
| If checked, all RealNetworks file-types are selected in the Auto Restore
Settings dialog mentioned above. RealPlayer will only select the default files types
that RealNetworks has created.
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