Success using RealPlayer 8 on windows XP!
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Success using RealPlayer 8 on windows XP!
Freydnot | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:18 pm     I've been having the looping cookie problem since Thursday. I wiped the hard drive, reinstalled windows XP, installed Real Player 8 Plus, and it still didn't work. I poked around at it last night trying to figure out why my laptop with win98 worked with RP8 but windows XP didn't. I tried copying the cookies from the laptop to the XP box, but that didn't work. I did two things today and now it works. First, I ran the Windows "Program Compatability Wizard" and set it up to make RP8 think it was running on a windows 98 box. That still didn't work, so I cleared the cookie cache in IE and tried again (still telling RP8 it was on a win98 box). This time it worked! I was suprised so I re-ran the wizard and removed the fix and allowed RP8 to see it was on XP again. It still worked. Yay! So, I figure one of two things could have happened. 1) Real fixed the problem finaly and all I needed to do was clean out the cache and retry. or 2) RP8 has to think its on windows 98 before it will set the cookies properly. Once the cookies are set, authentication will work fine. I guess I could clear out the cache and try again without running the wizard, but why mess with a working system If you are running windows XP, you can run the "Program Compatability Wizard" by clicking Start and going to All Programs|Accesseries|Program Compatability Wizard Post here if this works for you. |
Cwoody222 | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 01:28 pm     Supposedly the problem just got fixed (for everyone) this afternoon. I think you just timed stuff right. (kinda funny - the techs told me on the phone on Sunday that ALL XP users have been working...guess not!) |
Freydnot | Tuesday, August 20, 2002 - 03:23 pm     Windows XP users who use RealOne have been working. Windows XP users who are using Real Player version 8 have been down. |
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