Hi. I have found some entries that are in my Real Player History
folder that I didn't make, and don't ever remember watching. I know
that when you have spam emails, even if you do not click on the email,
you can get files in your temp internet folder, but I didn't think
that files automatically appeared in Real Player History, unless I had
actually watched what is there. Is there any way or reason that files
could crop up in that folder with out my actually having to have
watched them? I know on real player you can get those Real Player
messages crop up, but they go in their own folder entirely. The
entries in my Real Player  history folder are strange and not anything
I ever remeber watching, nor wanting to watch. Do you have any ideas
of what an explanation could be for this? I dont know how much info
you need about my system, but here is some. I have a Dell Dimension
XPS Gen3 computer, and use XP. I have a couple entries in my real
player history that do make sense, lke from BBC.com video streams that
I have watched, but then there are a few that don't make sense.. Any
help, thoughts, or opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

They could possible come from a website that has RealPlayer movies
embeded into it though I am not sure that they would actually appear
in the Real Player history.  Sometimes webpage designers imbed movies
into the page so the clip appears as part of the page instead of
launching the realplayer, quicktime, or windows media player
application to play the file in.  Beyond this the only reason I can
logically thing that they would appear is if someone else had watched
them on your computer.  what you can try doing is going through your
internet explorer TEMP directory and looking for webpages that may be
associated with these files.  The temp directory is different then the
history and is kept until the temp directory is full and more space is
needed to store new webpages.