"Thierry" <http://www.astrosurf.com/lombry> wrote in message
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I installed real Player on my system XP.
Usually I complete a work unit in 17hr. Wintout SETI, as soon as
Real Player (RP) is loaded the CPU ressources increase to about
100%, that it is active (running a music, loclaly loaded on streaming)
or idle (even without any song loaded, only the RP kernel).

I haven't noticed any performance hit when running RealPlayer.  On my
old PII 400 system (Win2000) it takes ~5% for audio playback and ~20%
for video playback.  When it is stopped, it uses 0% CPU resources.  It
sounds like you have some software clash issue.  Perhaps you could
try re-installing it?