Also is it wise to download every music/movie player that is available such as realplayer, adobe player, and flash etc etc. I've at the moment refused to do this, because of two many programs on my rather slow PC.  Hope there is a reply out of this.  :clink It depends, those players are usually used for watching content online via streaming, for example if you don't have flash player you won't be able to watch youtube.    There are pages that gives you the choice of using one player or another (Windows Media Player, RealPLayer, etc) but if your internet connection is dial-up I really see it hard to watch streaming video... it's up to you really.. if you want a particular page to render correctly and it needs a particular video player, you'll have to download/install it.