QuickTime is doing my head in

[SteveGoodz]

Calling all computer techies (and nerds) ~

I have iTunes installed on my Windows PC (XP Pro fully up-to-date) and this relies on QuickTime to play music files. It was all behaving okay until I installed an update from Apple the other day ~ now QT has taken over  :x

Despite having changed it's setting so that it only plays iTune files it keeps trying to run just about everything including Flash ... and failing! Most annoying is it has stopped me viewing YouTube videos .. I just get a horid blue "Q" where the vid should be  :?

Anyone got a solution aside from uninstalling it?

[sleeplessparadise]

I know you said you don't want to uninstall it but that's what I would do! I won't instal quick time or real player cos they take over everything so I instal the alternatives   Look here for the alternative and here for Real player alternative  :D

[Evilgoat]

Welcome to quicktime. best way to stop this happening sadly is not to use it, tis notorious for doing this and it cant actually play a lot of the stuff it associates with.

Uninstall it then re-install using the custom option and it will allow you to choose the file associations.

[Edge]

Didn't quick-time have serious security issues??? (seem to remember reading about it somewhere online).

[narked]

My main gripe with it was it took over playing mpeg videos in Internet Explorer. I tried changing settings in QuickTime and WMP, all to no avail. In the end I found it had a couple of plugins activated within IE, so I deactivated those, and now WMP is back doing it's job.

[Jake]

I run itunes and quicktime on my pc for my ipod but i use media player 11 as my default player.
I got it from www.download.com
In the settings of M.P. 11, tell it to be the default player on all formats.
Now the two programmes work as they are supposed too.
 8)

[SteveGoodz]

I know you said you don't want to uninstall it but that's what I would do! I won't instal quick time or real player cos they take over everything so I instal the alternatives   Look here for the alternative and here for Real player alternative  :D

QT is only installed because iTunes demands it and that was all it was being used for until the update. I have WMP11 set up as the default player for everything audio and visual but QT still sticks it's oar in  :(

[SteveGoodz]

Didn't quick-time have serious security issues??? (seem to remember reading about it somewhere online).

It's on a tight leash with my firewall holding the reigns. I'm not worried about it snooping if it can't tell anyone what it's seen  :)

[SteveGoodz]

Ok, I think I've sorted it out.

The stupid installer application doesn't give you any options during the installation and loads several plug-ins into whichever browsers it sees on the computer.

I went into Firefox's plug-ins screen to find the name of the dll being used and then searched for that on the hard drive. Having found the dll I simply changed it's extender to ".dllzzz" and that stopped it loading  :)

I'm a happy bunny again  :P

Thanks for the help, folks.