What is Rhapsody Player Engine?

Rhapsody Player Engine is software application developed by RealNetworks, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows Vista with nearly 62.55% of installations running this operating system. Rhapsody Player Engine's installer is typically 0.98 MB in size and installs around 223 files. The most common release is 1.0.604 with 76.28% of all installations currently using this version.

Rhapsody Player Engine is most popular in the United States with 84.54% of installations residing in this country.

Rhapsody Player Engine adds 4 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Rhapsody Player Engine is known to create 3 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Firewall:

hpwuschd2.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\hpwuSchd2.exe'.
steam.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\hry\Steam\Steam.exe'.
hpwucli.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\HPWUCli.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

issch.exe is scheduled as a task named 'InstallShield software-updateservice' (runs weekly on Mondays at 10:00).
hpwuschd2.exe is scheduled as a task named 'hp digital imaging - hp all-in-one series' (runs weekly on Mondays at 10:00 AM).
steam.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{C19637F8-6653-413F-AF1C-89AE1851340E}' (runs on registration).
driverupdate.exe is scheduled as a task named 'DriverUpdate Scan' (runs weekly on Sundays at 3:00 AM).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

hpwuschd2.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named HP Software Update.
driverupdate.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named DriverUpdate Startup.
steam.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Steam.

Registry entries:

issch.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'ISUSScheduler' and executes as "C:\Program Files\common files\installshield\updateservice\issch.exe" -start.
steam.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Steam' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Steam\steam.exe" -silent.
driverupdate.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'DriverUpdate' and executes as "C:\Program Files\DriverUpdate\DriverUpdate.exe" -boot.
hpwuschd2.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'HP Software Update' and executes as C:\Program Files\HP\HP Software Update\HPWuSchd2.exe.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.rhapsody.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\real\rhapsodyplayerengine

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /I{8A62A068-3FD6-495A-9F66-26FE94F32EC9}

Size:

0.98 MB

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