I'd try deleting them in Safe Mode, it maybe because real player is running as it usually does at start up. If you boot to safe mode real player won't be running there. Try it an see. Restart the computer, hold down the F8 key during restart, wait for the Windows Advanced boot options menu to appear, select Safe Mode from the list, hit enter. Try deleting the file.

THE 3,000 MILE GARDEN Two professional gardeners, one British, the other American, having met at a New Hampshire "mushroom foray," continue to share their gardening adventures in this delightful collection of their letters. Journalist/author Land (The Modern Country Cook) has country gardens in Cushing, Maine, and upstate New York; Phillips, a prolific writer/lecturer and plant photographer (Quest for the Rose), gardens by committee in London's three-acre city park at Eccleston Square. The difference in their situations intrigues them both and is instructive. They exchange discoveries about climate, garden design, rare and common cultivars, soils, mulches, pests and numerous other details of concern to gardeners. They spice their letters with botanical myth and gossip, bits of local history and geography and custom, and compare favorite recipes for their edible plants. Among other titillations, Phillips tells her how he heated a ham in mulch, and Land describes her experiments with diluted urine as a greening agent. But every page in this chatty, exuberant book is a feast of tips and surprises whose abundance and utility well serve any gardener. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Library Journal Land is an American food writer who gardens; Phillips is a London-based plant photographer and writer who cooks. The two met in 1989 at a mushroom bash in New Hampshire and began a conversation that was too good to end. They continued it by mail. The resulting letters, through 1994, make up a book that is an exchange of ideas, drawings, practical tips, recipes, and personal tidbits. The correspondence is also the basis of a public television series that will air beginning in December of this year. Of particular interest are Phillips's references to the garden squares of London. We learn a bit about their history, the committee that oversees them, and the assaults on them by builders of high rises and car parks. Land's garden is in Maine, and the reader enjoys following her struggles with weather, soil, and terrain. The letters, witty and entertaining, are unfortunately published with no linking narrative, leaving gaps and unanswered questions. Though not an essential purchase, this book nevertheless will be enjoyed where anglophilic gardeners or public television fans are numerous. Carol Cubberley, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Rhizo, I was one of your followers (at least I think) and am not offended. Happened by accident before I even looked at the Kitchen Table. You were always helping identifying caterpillars and bugs in the Butterfly Garden. Sometimes when I hit the notification bell icon, instead of getting to the thread I accidentally land on the profile of whoever posted last (iPad). What does the following even do? I never got any notifications about anybody I am following (and there are some more accidental butterfly people). Never bothered to unfollow anybody for that reason.

The difference between a PB and a QP is the quality of the paper that it is printed on. A PB is printed on lower quality pulp paper that has a high acid content. A QP is printed on better quality paper and is usually a larger format. A QP is much the same as a soft covered "hardback" book. The genres of science fiction,mystery, and romance have, traditionally, been printed on pulp paper. They were marketed in the less expensive venues of spinners in retail stores and drug stores and were purchased as cheap reads with people buying the next one in the series as it came out in quick order, thus earning a reputation as being formula fiction. That does not mean that there are not some outstanding authors being published. Some mystery authors seem to have a following, and science fiction has a large audience. Judging from who it was that stood, transfixed, in the aisle of the SF, it seems to be largely males. Not always, of course. The larger "art" books in that genre were always graced with front covers of scantily clad, large breasted females. Romance novels attracted the women, obviously. And, then there was the "anime" that had young teens, largely female, entranced and sitting on the floor with books in hand. All of this "genre fiction" was kept in proximity to each other because of the format of most of it. The PBs in the book store were so numerous and sold in such mass quantities that they had to be back stacked on the shelves. That meant running a row of spine out books on the outer edge and the excess was in layered stacks behind that row. People came in and purchased them by the dozens. That is not the same situation with those other works of fiction that are classified under the genre of "literature". Most of those were QP and CL (cloth) format and they are not in series. By, and because of, these convoluted factors these books came to be cheap reads that are printed on cheap paper and meant to be consumed in mass quantities. I spent years working in a book store and observing what went on the shelf and who bought it. Just because it is pulp fiction does not mean that there are no outstanding authors. It does not mean that you cannot store them under the bed, on the stairs, in stacks on the floor of the basement, in large containers or boxes, or where ever you wish. If that is your thing. Be aware that they have no value beyond your own reading pleasure. They are, quite literally, almost a dollar a dozen at most book sales.