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Quick Time

Apr 30, 2004 4:07AM PDT

Windows 98..IE5.5 I recently installed Quick Time version 6.5. How can I stop the program from loading at start-up?? I have unchecked it from Msconfig. and that works for a few days and then it starts up again. I also checked for any options in the program, but could not find anything, am I missing something??
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Irene, This Should Help
Apr 30, 2004 5:38AM PDT

In Windows 98, click on Start-Settings-Control Panel. When the "Control Panel" opens, double click on the "Quicktime" icon. (The blue "Q") When the "Quicktime Settings" window loads, click on the drop down arrow and select "Browser Plug In". When that loads, UNCHECK the "Show Quicktime icon in task bar" (or something like that.).

The taskbar icon will disappear and it won't load at start up.

THIS ISN'T PERFECT. The next time you visit a site where you use Quicktime, it may reset itself so that Quicktime loads at start up again. Simply follow the same procedures above and it will go away again...until you use Quicktime again.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Use regedit, too
Apr 30, 2004 7:21AM PDT

This is largely stolen from a discussion on Usenet, which I searched using Google Groups. I highly recommend using that as a research tool.

Start-Run. Type "regedit"

Navigate along
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>SOFTWARE>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run

Now look on the right. Delete the items for the programs that you don't want to boot every time.

Deleting the key that launches a specific program will stop it from launching, but keep in mind that this may affect how that program runs when you manually
launch it.

Always reboot after doing a Regedit. And backup any key you're about to delete to your desktop. (Double-clicking on that backed-up key will
reinsert it into the Registry.)

This is done by clicking on the file on the right, doing File>Export, and saving the file somewhere. Opening that file later will replace the registry entry if you need it back.

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Re:Use regedit, too
Apr 30, 2004 9:51PM PDT

Thank You for all your help.