Quicktime

[Howard Tate]

I uninstalled it because I couldn't stop it from playing clips on the internet. It was much slower and less convenient then Windows Media Player. Now if I go to a link that says I need Quicktime to play it, I always say no and close the link, but it always put an icon on my systray. Is there a way to prevent that?

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Howard

[Dave Potter]

All the media players have settings options which include which file types they will be responsible for playing. If you look in your Media Player "Preferences" at the File Types list, you'll discover that the Quicktime .mov file type is not listed. So, even if Media Player is your preferred player, you won't be able to play Quicktime .mov movies with it.

You need one of the Quicktime players, or a Quicktime alternative (they exist) to do it. Quicktime players also have File Type settings that determing which multimedia files it will play, both outside of your web browser, and the plugins used by the browser (MIME). So, there are two lists of file type settings.

It's hard to say what's going on with that systay icon, if Quicktime has been uninstalled. What happens when you left-click or double click that icon?

You also have File Type Associations set for your operating system, generically, as opposed to specific applications (media player, quicktime, etc.). My guess is that the Quicktime uninstall did not remove a .mov file type association somewhere, either in Windows or within your browser settings. And the Quicktime icon file is still on your hard drive.

I'd be looking at file type and MIME settings wherever they exist, and if I found one for .mov, I'd delete it. You may also want to try right-clicking on that systray icon and get its name, and maybe there will be a link to the source file. You can delete that file as well.

Finally, since it's a fact that Quicktime movies are, and will continue to be in widespread usage to display web content, and without a Quicktime viewer, you won't be able to view those movies, I suggest you reinstall Quicktime and simply select the options so it performs acceptably (unless you really don't ever want to see another Quicktime movie).

[Howard Tate]

There are a few quicktime movies that I like to watch, such as Paul Franklins videos. I watch them on my wifes computer. I have installed Quicktime and in file association options, I unchecked everything except quicktime videos. In Windows media player I associate all audio types including midi with Media player. No audio types are associated with quicktime, yet when it's installed if I try to play a clip from this forum or anywhere on the internet, it opens Quicktime player. I have uninstalled it and searched for and deleted all references to quicktime. Yet if I go to a link, such as b0b just posted in the humor forum, even tho I do not open the file and refuse the offer to install quicktime, it still puts the icon on the systray. Then I have to do the search and delete again. I just don't understand why it puts the icon there. By the way, thanks for trying to help, Dave.

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Howard

[Earnest Bovine]

I have the same problem with the Mozilla Firefox browser. Even tho QuickTime is not present on the computer, Firefox tells me I must use install Quicktime when I click on sertain links. I think the problem may be in some of Firefox's .js files. For example, all.js tells Firefox to look at Netscape 4.x configuration when it encounters some of these file types.
The workaround for me is to use Microsoft Internet Explorer instead of Firefox as my browser.

[Earnest Bovine]

Actually I have no idea what that stuff in the all.js file does. Here is a suspicious looking part of it:
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// Locate plugins by scanning the Quicktime installation directory with a minimum version
pref("plugin.scan.Quicktime", "5.0");

// Locate and scan the Window Media Player installation directory for plugins with a minimum version
pref("plugin.scan.WindowsMediaPlayer", "7.0");

// Locate plugins by the directories specified in the Windows registry for PLIDs
// Which is currently HKLM\Software\MozillaPlugins\xxxPLIDxxx\Path
pref("plugin.scan.plid.all", true);

// Controls the scanning of the Navigator 4.x directory for plugins
// When pref is missing, the default is to pickup popular plugins such as
// Flash, Shockwave, Acrobat, and Quicktime. If set to true, ALL plugins
// will be picked up and if set to false the scan will not happen at all
//pref("plugin.scan.4xPluginFolder", false);