Winamp won't play realmedia proper I think. My advice is to leave Real Player in place, install the realmedia splitter for DirectShow and then use any DS based player to view your files. There are tons of them. Some of the best (and free) are Media Player Classic and BSPlayer IMO. The latest I have discovered and that is very good is KMPlayer. You might want to try it as it includes several (many) splitters, including the realmedia and Quicktime ones, it can use in internal mode apparently without registering them to the system. http://www.kmplayer.com/down/kmp.zip i've been using it for a while .This is the best in my opinion and i've seen them all