Jimi, It may be that in the settings of one of those two programs (especially RealPlayer), you have a checkbox marked for "automatically sign on to internet when program is launched" or something similar to that effect... a simple un-checking should do the trick, IF that is what causes the problem. I'm not familiar with Real Player's settings, as I am on a Linux system most of the time, but I'm thinking that all you have to do is right-click on the icon for the program, select "properties" or "settings" or something of the sort, and see what happens from there.
Hope that is helpful... back to the grind of work, Pete ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
